Lamar Owen wrote: > On Friday, March 04, 2011 03:54:21 pm John R Pierce wrote: >> just setup NTP and forget about it, and it will always work right, >> unless your system is really badly broken, whereupon, it would be better >> to fix it than to continue to hack around like this. > > For the sake of the archives, VMware guests should be set to sync from the > host using the VMware tools functionality, and then the host should run > NTP, even and especially on ESX. VMware timekeeping in the guest can be > made worse by running NTP inside the guest. This is a well-known VMware > issue, and is covered in depth on the VMware knowledgebase. Excuse me? The last time I was following this closely, and I think the last time I looked, about a year ago, they said the opposite, that the guest, if running Linux, should use ntp. Right: NTP Recommendations Note: In all cases use NTP instead of VMware Tools periodic time synchronization. Also, you may need to open the firewall (UDP 123) to allow NTP traffic. at <http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006427> mark