> A note by Johnny Hughes in http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2189 > (comment 6644): > > "As a side note ... if the clock GAINS (runs to fast) time you should > be able to fix it with this: > > http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1591 > > (by setting the correct host.cpukHz) and vmware tools should adjust a > clock that is too slow. > > Also see this blog entry concerning host.cpukHz: > > http://blog.autoedification.com/2006/11/vmware-guest-clock-runs-fast.html " Taking the advice from a few people and web pages, I made this change to grub.conf: kernel /xen.gz-2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 divider=10 clock=pit The clock is better but still not fixed. It jumps forward less often. Jack