Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-15 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:04 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:55:40AM -0500, Carlos Santana wrote: >> 1. Kernel options added as: >> divider=10 >> clocksource=acpi_pm >> >> 2. ntp.conf file was modified as per wiki instructions as follows: >> (add to the top of the file) >>

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-15 Thread MHR
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:04 AM, Akemi Yagi 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

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-15 Thread fred smith
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 09:00:54AM -0400, Phil Schaffner wrote: > Carlos Santana wrote on 10/14/2009 12:13 PM: > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > ... > >> I hope you have seen my earlier posts in this thread. If you are not > >> running the latest kernel (-164), you want to

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-15 Thread Phil Schaffner
Carlos Santana wrote on 10/14/2009 12:13 PM: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Akemi Yagi 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

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread Benjamin Franz
Les Mikesell wrote: > So is this going to change for CentOS when 5.4 is released? > > Also, this seems geared towards guest settings when running under > ESX(i). The place I've seen the worst problem is when running under > vmware server with a CPU that saves power by running at variable speed

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread Les Mikesell
Brian Mathis wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:38 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: >> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Carlos Santana wrote: >> >>> Howdy, >>> >>> I am having time-drift issues on my CentOS VM. I had referred to >>> following documentation: >> The issue I had with time drift was due to running NTP

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread Brian Mathis
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 1:38 PM, James A. Peltier wrote: > On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Carlos Santana wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> I am having time-drift issues on my CentOS VM. I had referred to >> following documentation: > > The issue I had with time drift was due to running NTP inside the VM. > Don't do

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread James A. Peltier
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Carlos Santana wrote: > Howdy, > > I am having time-drift issues on my CentOS VM. I had referred to > following documentation: The issue I had with time drift was due to running NTP inside the VM. Don't do it. The VM should get it's time through the VMWare tools that are i

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 10:55:40AM -0500, Carlos Santana wrote: > Following steps were taken to set up my CentOS VM guest (without > vmware-tools installed): > > 1. Kernel options added as: > divider=10 > clocksource=acpi_pm > > 2. ntp.conf file was modified as per wiki instructions as follows: >

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread Carlos Santana
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Akemi Yagi wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Carlos Santana wrote: > >> Following steps were taken to set up my CentOS VM guest (without >> vmware-tools installed): >> >> 1. Kernel options added as: >> divider=10 >> clocksource=acpi_pm > (snip) >> Any mis

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 8:55 AM, Carlos Santana wrote: > Following steps were taken to set up my CentOS VM guest (without > vmware-tools installed): > > 1. Kernel options added as: > divider=10 > clocksource=acpi_pm (snip) > Any missing pointers..? > > Thanks, > CS. I hope you have seen my earli

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread Carlos Santana
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:50 AM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:41:52AM -0500, Carlos Santana wrote: >> The CentOS wiki link I mentioned [ >> http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VMWare_Server ], has instructions >> adapted from VMware knowledge base link mentioned by many of y

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread Ray Van Dolson
On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:41:52AM -0500, Carlos Santana wrote: > The CentOS wiki link I mentioned [ > http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VMWare_Server ], has instructions > adapted from VMware knowledge base link mentioned by many of you [ > http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006427 ]. > > I have followe

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-14 Thread Carlos Santana
The CentOS wiki link I mentioned [ http://wiki.centos.org/TipsAndTricks/VMWare_Server ], has instructions adapted from VMware knowledge base link mentioned by many of you [ http://kb.vmware.com/kb/1006427 ]. I have followed the instructions on CentOS wiki, but it doesn't seem to work. Most of the

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-13 Thread mark
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 timekee

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-13 Thread Dag Wieers
On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, 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 , howe

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-13 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Ray Van Dolson wrote: > On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 04:31:03PM -0700, nate wrote: >> 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 li

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-13 Thread aurfalien
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, O

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-13 Thread Ray Van Dolson
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 cr

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-13 Thread nate
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 timekeep

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-13 Thread Akemi Yagi
On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 2:42 PM, 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 im

Re: [CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-13 Thread Greg Bailey
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 timekeep

[CentOS] timekeeping on VMware guests

2009-10-13 Thread Carlos Santana
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 suggesti