On Feb 7, 2007, at 9:47, Scott McClanahan wrote: > 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. Just to follow up, my VM was running all night long and was less than a minute behind this morning. Not as good as running NTP, but definitely better than losing 45 seconds every minute. I think the key was to enable time synchronization between the guest and the host, which for some reason was not enabled by default. Thanks again for all the help, Alfred