* Peter p.vittali@tonhof.ch [20071205 23:31]:
I have problems getting the time stable on a grml 1.0 guest running inside a vmware virtual machine on a grml 1.0 host.
The host is synchronized via chrony and it works. The guest is getting behind the host system time very rapidly (approx 10 Mins in an hour) I tried various options: 1 with chrony and without vmware tools time sync 2 the inverse 3 some hacks include: kern.hz=100 in lilo.conf
nothing works. I also have a grml 1.0 running as guest inside vmware workstation (the commercial product tp vmware server) on a Windows 2000 host (which has no time sync) . Here , the guest has no time sync with the host and uses chrony . Everything works in this case.
Did you enable "Time synchrononization between the virtual machine and the host operating system." inside vmware-tools? That's tools.syncTime = "TRUE" inside the according .vmx file if you don't have X.
Further tips from one of my personal cheatsheets:
* Booting the guest OS with clock=pit and/or acpi=off * echo 1 > /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate * http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf
regards, -mika-