[ale] VMWare Server and time

[James Sumners]

I should state that I'm not an expert on this. I just have the links
handy because I have been reading them today. I am actually working on
the same sort of problem right now.

In regard to NTP, from the "Linux Timekeeping Best Practice" VMWare
knowledge base article: "Note: In all cases use NTP instead of VMware
Tools periodic time synchronization." So it seems like a good idea to
go with NTP over the server's ticks.

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 2:47 PM, The Don Lachlan
<ale-at-ale.org at unpopularminds.org> wrote:
> On 03/30/2011 02:34 PM, James Sumners wrote:
>> 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.
>
> I'd seen it when I dealt with this before, I just found the link I sent
> first and felt that was a good starting point for him. I'm not going to do
> ALL the work for him. ;)
>
> As for NTP, I'm working off my recollection from solving this a few years
> ago. You may be correct and I'm misremembering. I write things down just so
> I have more free space to remember that the gang leader who said, "Warriors!
> Come out and play-ay!" also played the gang leader who said, "There ain't no
> comin' back, man. There ain't no comin' back!", and also played an
> institutionalized guy looking for a blue-bird and a convict who set Chris
> Rock on fire.
>
> -L


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