[CentOS] system time automatically fowards in time and then comes back to normal

Akemi Yagi wrote:
> for VMware products including ESX and ESXi.  According to their
> current recommendations, " In all cases use NTP instead of VMware
> Tools periodic time synchronization."

I've been using vmware for 10 years, and I've never, ever ever
gotten NTP to hold sync inside of a VM outside of using a VMI
enabled kernel.

nate