On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Ray Van Dolson rayvd@bludgeon.org wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:41:52AM -0500, Carlos Santana wrote:
The CentOS wiki link I mentioned [ http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VMWare_Server ], has instructions adapted from VMware knowledge base link mentioned by many of you [ http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006427 ].
I have followed the instructions on CentOS wiki, but it doesn't seem to work. Most of the suggestions here are same as mentioned in the CentOS wiki/VMware knowledge base. Any comments or suggestions?
(Most people prefer you don't top post FYI).
Can you describe the steps you took exactly? And the symptoms you're still seeing?
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Following steps were taken to set up my CentOS VM guest (without vmware-tools installed):
1. Kernel options added as: divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm
2. ntp.conf file was modified as per wiki instructions as follows: (add to the top of the file) # modification as per http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006427 # The configuration directive tinker panic 0 instructs NTP not to give up # if it sees a large jump in time and must be at the top of the ntp.conf file. tinker panic 0 # end of mod
(comment out 2 lines as below) # modification as per http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006427 # It is also important not to use the local clock as a time source, # often referred to as the Undisciplined Local Clock. NTP has a # tendency to fall back to this in preference to the remote servers # The following 2 lines commented out.
# when there is a large amount of time drift. # server 127.127.1.0 # local clock # fudge 127.127.1.0 stratum 10
3. Create /etc/ntp/step-tickers and add these lines: 0.centos.pool.ntp.org 1.centos.pool.ntp.org ----------------------
Any missing pointers..?
Thanks, CS.