[ale] Clock Drift in VMware Server

[Jim Kinney]

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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