[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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