[CentOS] Vmware server help

William L. Maltby BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com
Sat Jul 15 08:05:06 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-07-15 at 13:19 +1000, Centos-admin wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I thought I'd ask you guys about this one since I've had no luck from 
> vmware forums/kb or google ...
> 
> 
> I have a centos 4.3 x86-64 (athlon64 with cool-n quiet enabled) with 
> vmware server 1.0 installed and working beautifully with the annoying 
> exception of my guest machines clocks (centos, ubuntu etc) run very 
> fast. I've read the vmware white paper on guest clocks, tried all their 
> suggestions and had no joy. I've tried passing the clock=x parameters to 
> the guests kernel etc to no avail. There is one last hope according to 
> the white paper....install vmware tools and then set clock=pmtr and then 
> use ntp from within the guest to sync the time periodically.

This was discussed recently on this list and it looks like maybe you
didn't search CentOS lists? I don't use it, but IIRC, the "pmtr" was one
of the possible solutions. Search CentOS and maybe you'll get lucky and
see your config mentioned?

> Do any of 
> you know a way to get vmware tools installed when you do not run a 
> graphical interface (ie runlevel of the box is 3) ? I cant seem to get 
> it going. Should I download the tools and copy them into the vm ?

This wasn't discussed, IIRC. And I'm ignorant about that GUI gooey
stuff.

> 
> 
> Any help much appreciated as I'm not cutting over to use production VMs 
> until I can fix this.

Always a safe posture. AAMOF, I quit cutting *anything* over to
production many years ago. ;-) Now my nerves are much better, thanks!

> <snip sig overage>

> Bards.
> <snip sig stuff>

-- 
Bill
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