[ale] Clock Drift in VMware Server

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Thu May 28 18:17:10 EDT 2009


vmware server is not suitable for anything but light testing. time
drift is only one issue.

It is an effective coaster maker if you try and use it to burn a DVD
from a vm. CD burning seems to work OK.

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Chris
Fowler<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 17:15 -0400, Brian MacLeod wrote:
>> Here at Tech, our ESX hosted machines have the ntpd service installed,
>> configured and enabled.
>>
>
> I have ntpd running on each guest and even the host.  It is syncing from
> us.pool.ntp.org.  Still I need a script to run ntpdate every 5 minutes.
>
> At least every 5 minutes get me down to less than 60s drift
>
> 28 May 17:34:26 ntpdate[20089]: step time server 69.10.36.5 offset
> 11.454649 sec
> 28 May 17:40:18 ntpdate[20700]: step time server 69.10.36.2 offset
> 50.063835 sec
> 28 May 17:45:45 ntpdate[21412]: step time server 69.10.36.2 offset
> 25.272149 sec
> 28 May 17:51:38 ntpdate[22254]: step time server 69.10.36.2 offset
> 51.138394 sec
> 28 May 17:57:03 ntpdate[22990]: step time server 72.52.190.26 offset
> 24.190733 sec
>
>
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