[CentOS] Vmware server help

Sat Jul 15 03:19:38 UTC 2006
Centos-admin <redhat at mckerrs.net>

Hello all,

I thought I'd ask you guys about this one since I've had no luck from 
vmware forums/kb or google ...


I have a centos 4.3 x86-64 (athlon64 with cool-n quiet enabled) with 
vmware server 1.0 installed and working beautifully with the annoying 
exception of my guest machines clocks (centos, ubuntu etc) run very 
fast. I've read the vmware white paper on guest clocks, tried all their 
suggestions and had no joy. I've tried passing the clock=x parameters to 
the guests kernel etc to no avail. There is one last hope according to 
the white paper....install vmware tools and then set clock=pmtr and then 
use ntp from within the guest to sync the time periodically. Do any of 
you know a way to get vmware tools installed when you do not run a 
graphical interface (ie runlevel of the box is 3) ? I cant seem to get 
it going. Should I download the tools and copy them into the vm ?


Any help much appreciated as I'm not cutting over to use production VMs 
until I can fix this.


Cheers,


Bards.