On Friday, March 04, 2011 04:05:43 pm m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
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
Argh, they've changed it..... Last I read that page the recommendation was opposite to that. Although I remember the clock=pit part of that, and the divider=10 piece....
But I remember a couple of years ago reading the opposite about NTP....
Oh well, just goes to show that best practices change, although I have had fairly good results from VMware with the VMware tools sync, where I did not at that time have good results with NTP in the guest. On ESX 3.0.x and later ESX 3.5.
Well, time to go redo some things, I guess. We have a GPS-disciplined physical box as one of the three NTP masters we use....