Lamar Owen wrote:
On Friday, March 04, 2011 03:54:21 pm John R Pierce wrote:
just setup NTP and forget about it, and it will always work right, unless your system is really badly broken, whereupon, it would be better to fix it than to continue to hack around like this.
For the sake of the archives, VMware guests should be set to sync from the host using the VMware tools functionality, and then the host should run NTP, even and especially on ESX. VMware timekeeping in the guest can be made worse by running NTP inside the guest. This is a well-known VMware issue, and is covered in depth on the VMware knowledgebase.
Excuse me? The last time I was following this closely, and I think the last time I looked, about a year ago, they said the opposite, that the guest, if running Linux, should use ntp.
Right: NTP Recommendations Note: In all cases use NTP instead of VMware Tools periodic time synchronization. Also, you may need to open the firewall (UDP 123) to allow NTP traffic. at http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006427
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