[NTLUG:Discuss] uptime ??

[Chris Cox]

Richard wrote:
> Chris Cox wrote:
>> Richard wrote:
>>   
>>> Eric Waguespack wrote:
>>>     
>>>> On Feb 19, 2008 11:17 AM, Richard <ntlug at rain4us.net> wrote:
>>>>   
>>>>       
>>>>> root at mailserver:/var/log/httpd# uptime
>>>>>  11:20:11 up -24855 days, -3:-14,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>> It's a vmware guest machine.  <snip>
>>>
>>>     
>> You cannot use ntp inside of VMware guests... use the VMware Toolbox
>> instead and set it to synchronize with the host OS... 
> My guest OSes don't normally run X.  I installed vmware-tools and set 
> the guest to sync time with the host.  Does the setting work as long as 
> vmware-guestd is running?

yes... that is correct.  You have to set it graphically, but once
that is done, it can even run in runlevel 3 (for example).

>> you can use ntp on the host.
>>
>>   
> Do I understand you correctly that you are classifying ntpd and ntpdate 
> together as  'ntp'.

Just saying that your clock will skew greatly without the VMware
Tools (vmware-guestd with the sync option enabled) running.
So even using ntpdate won't work flawlessly.

Even VMware's sync isn't perfect, but it's the best thing
out there for VMware at the moment.