[CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

[MHR]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I hope you have seen my earlier posts in this thread.  If you are not
> running the latest kernel (-164), you want to give it a try because it
> has patches developed by VMWare engineers for RHEL kernels.  If you
> are already running the -164 kernel, you should not be using the
> clocksource= option as explained in the upstream bugzilla I cited.
>

I'm a latecomer to this thread, but I went back and read the whole
thing, and my WinXP VMWare Server guest is still way off - more than
an hour.

I turned off the VMWare time sync, and also used the control panel to
turn off its time sync (wasn't working anyway - errors on every
effort), installed meinberg's ntp and ntp sync service, and the time
is still off by more than an hour.

I'm not sure what more I need to do to get this working right.

I am running the 164 kernel - have been since about five minutes after
I installed it....

Suggestions?

mhr