[ale] VMWare Server and time

[Lightner, Jeff]

Does vmware have an hwclock command for guests?  If so what does it show the time on the guests as compared to what date shows as time?

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From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Payne
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 2:18 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] VMWare Server and time

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Chris Fowler
<cfowler at outpostsentinel.com> wrote:
> I'm still running VMWare Server and have never really solved time issues
> in the guests.  The problem I'm halving is that the clock in each guest
> drifts so bad I have to constantly update it.  I have a script that will
> execute ntpdate every hour.  Here is a part of the log
>
>
>
> 10 Aug 00:53:15 ntpdate[16209]: step time server 69.31.13.210 offset
> 13.118829 sec
> 10 Aug 01:53:06 ntpdate[19433]: step time server 75.144.70.35 offset
> -12.301576 sec
> 10 Aug 02:53:13 ntpdate[22663]: step time server 69.10.36.3 offset
> 5.684093 sec
> 10 Aug 03:53:52 ntpdate[26002]: step time server 216.184.20.83 offset
> 37.277543 sec
> 10 Aug 04:54:08 ntpdate[29719]: step time server 207.171.30.106 offset
> 14.900770 sec
> 10 Aug 05:54:10 ntpdate[517]: adjust time server 69.93.111.178 offset
> 0.231262 sec
> 10 Aug 06:54:12 ntpdate[3808]: adjust time server 207.171.30.106 offset
> 0.045966 sec
> 10 Aug 07:54:13 ntpdate[7029]: step time server 64.73.32.134 offset
> -1.187768 sec
> 10 Aug 08:55:03 ntpdate[10259]: step time server 69.63.177.217 offset
> 47.613517 sec
> 10 Aug 09:54:40 ntpdate[13547]: step time server 208.94.240.2 offset
> -24.475964 sec
>
>
> It seems as the host's load increases the clock drifts more.  Is this
> just a fact of VMWare server?
>
> Chris
>
>
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Chris,

Yes, we looked at it, even reached out to VM Ware, where they told us,
that we need to move to ESX.

Chuck

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