Howdy, I am having time-drift issues on my CentOS VM. I had referred to following documentation: http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VMWare_Server , however it didn't help. I used kickstart for creating this VM and I am listing important steps in ref to timekeeping issue. Any comments or suggestion would be appreciated. - CS. ------------------- # For EL5 virtual machines, Append the following in Grub to help keep the clock from drifting # and to reduce the interupt requests # 32bit: --append="rhgb quiet divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm" # 64bit: --append="rhgb quiet notsc divider=10" bootloader --location=mbr --md5pass=$1$mXSD1l6mO$BBCk1gYArAATS7dlCQGthN. --append="rhgb quiet divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm" %packages --nobase # Other packages not listed here # ntp was installed ntp ### Add step-tickers ### cat > /etc/ntp/step-tickers <<\EOF2 0.centos.pool.ntp.org 1.centos.pool.ntp.org EOF2 ### End of step-ticker file ### -------------------- # Applied patch mentioned on CentOS page # http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VMWare_Server patch --verbose -b -l -i /root/ntp.patch -------------------- VMware Tools not installed. -------------------- Thanks, CS.