Adrian Close schrieb: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006, Justin Blackmore wrote: > >> Im running several OpenBSD 3.9 VM's on a GSX server and the clocks on >> the OBSD vm's drift pretty bad, the real time host hardware clock is > > How much drift? The guest "hardware" clock generally won't be stable > enough for NTP to keep things in sync (it might look like it's OK for a > bit, but it won't be).
Hello, I had the same problem with GSX Server and a linux guest, about 3 hours in one day. (After stopping the java process from the developers, the drift was only some minutes in a day :-) But the developers need their crappy java stuff ;-) ). > > You might be able to use the Linux vmware-guestd tool (I haven't tried > on OpenBSD), which will sync the time to the host hardware if you ask it > (but you need X11 to config that, from memory). I installed the vmware tools, don't have X running and started the vmwaretools from another machine by ssh -X [EMAIL PROTECTED] vmware-tools. Don't know If the vmware-tools work on openbsd (with linux or freebsd emul) but you don't need X on the openbsd Client, just a ssh-Connection and X Forwarding will help you to open the vmware-toolbox (if it run on openbsd which I don't believe by now, but I am very interested if it works :-) ) Maybe you need tcl/tk. I also had a look throug the vmware-dirs on my machine but didn't find where vmware-tool stored if to synchronize time with host or not. > > I once had a GSX setup where guest hardware clocks typically ran at 1/3 > - 1/10th of realtime, and sped up when the guest OS was eating lots of > CPU, but that doesn't sound like what you have... > > Adrian Close email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 107 Essex St, Pascoe Vale web: http://www.close.wattle.id.au/~adrian > VIC, 3044, Australia mobile: +61 417 346 094 > > thanks guido
