NTP is not supposed to be running on your vm's. Instead, you leverage vmware tools and use the vmware-toolbox to enable time synchronization between the guest vm and the host. Also clock=pit is the recommended boot parameter. chkconfig ntpd off On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 09:03 -0500, Alfred von Campe wrote: > I'm running a CentOS 4.4 VM on a Windows XP host with VMware Server, > and have the problem that my clock runs too slow (it happens in > VMware Workstation as well). It loses between 30 and 45 seconds > every minute! This is a known problem and can be fixed by adding > "nosmp noapic nolapic" to the boot command according to VMware tech > note ID 1420. However, despite adding these options as well as some > others (acpi=off pci=noacpi clock=pit) and turning off a bunch of > daemons (cpuspeed, irqbalance, etc.) I still have a slow clock. Here > are the daemons that are still enabled: > > anacron 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > apmd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > atd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > autofs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > crond 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > cups 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > cups-config-daemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on > 5:on 6:off > denyhosts 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > gpm 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > haldaemon 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > iptables 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > kudzu 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > mdmonitor 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > messagebus 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > microcode_ctl 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > netfs 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > network 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > ntpd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off > portmap 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > readahead 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off > readahead_early 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:on 6:off > sendmail 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > sshd 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > syslog 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > vmware-tools 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:off 5:on 6:off > winbind 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:on 5:off 6:off > xfs 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > xinetd 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off > > Has anyone else come across this problem and if so, did you find a > way to fix it? This is the last issue that is preventing me from > distributing this VM to users. > > Thanks, > Alfred > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >