[SOLVED] Re: [CentOS-virt] VMware Server clock woes (running too fast)

Michael Ekstrand michael@elehack.net writes:

I tried, and the clock still gains time. Just took a few minutes for it to gain a second or two. I'll try disabling host power management sometime here when I feel like rebooting.

Disabling ACPI and APM in the host OS had the unfortunate result of causing it to cease to communicate with the SATA chipset. Therefore, that solution did not work.

I have, however, found a combination that seems to be stable. I disabled Cool & Quiet in BIOS -- evidently setting the CPU frequency governor to `performance' was not adequate. Combining this with the el5vm kernel with "noacpi nosmp noapic nolapic clocksource=pit" in the guest seems to work.

- Michael