[ale] VMWare Server and time

[James Sumners]

In both cases, that depends. Setting the clock algorithm to pit might
not be the best option. And if your system is very time dependent
(e.g. you do Tomcat clustering), then you will want NTP installed and
the VMWare clock update disabled (probably). Check out the first link
under "Additional Information" in the article you linked. It's the
article I linked in my reply.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:25 PM, The Don Lachlan
<ale-at-ale.org at unpopularminds.org> wrote:
> In short, specify on the kernel line: "clock=pit" on i386 arch and "notsc"
> on x86_64 arch.
>
> Also, you shouldn't need NTP on the VMWare client instances, just on the
> server; if NTP is running properly there, the clients will stay correct by
> using their hardware clock.


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