I had a similar issue with my Xen VMs, both fully virtualized and para virtualized. I followed these dirs and was able to fix it. Perhaps its applicable to you? http://www.linux.org.za/Lists-Archives/glug-tech-0905/msg00271.html On Oct 13, 2009, at 4:34 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:31:03PM -0700, nate wrote: >> Carlos Santana wrote: >>> 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. >> >> [..] >>> VMware Tools not installed. >> >> You should certainly install vmware tools, and enable time sync to >> the guest. Also don't run an ntp server in a Vmware VM. > > This is what I'd always thought, but the VMware KB link[1] referenced > in the other reply in this thread seems to indicate that best practice > is to use NTP + kernel w/ clock/divider options (unless it's new > enough > to not need it) and to *not* use the VMware Tools host time sync. > > That said, you should certainly still have VMware Tools installed, it > just sounds like the host time sync is no longer preferred... > > Also note that they recommend you remove the local time source in > ntp.conf... > > Ray > > [1] http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006427 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos