John Thomas wrote: > David Hollis wrote: >> Is there any detail on when you would actually need to use the >> clocksource= option? I'd love to not have to deal with the kernel-vm >> packages since there doesn't appear to be a repo for them yet and if you >> have other requirements like kmod-drbd you have to manually rebuild >> those. > > I use clocksource=pit because my VM clocks ran WAY fast without it. They > still run a bit fast (1 second per 6 hours type of thing). If you do > not use a clocksource option, how are your clocks? > One thing to make sure of if your clock is running fast is to get the correct setting for this in your vmx file for the VM: host.cpukHz = See this link for more info: http://blog.autoedification.com/2006/11/vmware-guest-clock-runs-fast.html Note: if you do not have the command cpufreq-info you can get it by installing cpufreq-utils with this command: yum install cpufreq-utils Then set the value based on the above article, then time might not run as fast. Thanks, Johnny Hughes -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 251 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-virt/attachments/20080629/5af78c89/attachment-0004.sig>