[ale] Clock Drift in VMware Server

[adam]

Chris Fowler wrote:
> I'm running VMware Server 2.0 on Centos 5.2 and I have 5.2 guests.  The
> clock drift on the guests is horrible.  I've written a script that
> updates the clock
> 
> 28 May 10:34:51 ntpdate[4522]: step time server 198.137.202.16 offset
> 558.557700 sec
> 28 May 11:43:41 ntpdate[12168]: step time server 216.14.97.75 offset
> 525.761734 sec
> 28 May 12:49:42 ntpdate[19722]: step time server 69.31.13.210 offset
> 357.566419 sec
> 28 May 13:54:41 ntpdate[27432]: step time server 209.104.4.231 offset
> 298.270392 sec
> 28 May 15:01:02 ntpdate[2459]: step time server 66.79.148.39 offset
> 378.376557 sec
> 28 May 16:08:38 ntpdate[10010]: step time server 207.171.30.106 offset
> 454.967227 sec
> 
> 
> It runs every hour but look at that drift.  Is there anything I can do
> to remedy this?
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
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I'm not sure if VMware Server has it, but when you install VMware tools 
on a guest *nix OS w/ ESX Server, there is a VMware Tools GUI that has 
an option in it to synchronize the guest clock to the host clock. 
Running ntp on the host with that checked on seemed to clear the problem 
up for me.

I'll poke at my test VMware server tomorrow at work, and see if I can 
find that option.