[NTLUG:Discuss] Something OTHER than Top Post - VMWware Time Sync & Named

[Ralph]

Dave,
  How far off is the clock on that VM?  The crude answer might be to run
ntpdate from some regular schedule in cron.  How often would depend on
the clock drift.  I have heard of this problem, but have not seen it
myself.  I've only been running a couple of VMWare VMs for a while. One
is Ubuntu 7.10 and one is something from they who will not be named.  I
have a few more I will be experimenting on soon, though.
  That does bring up a related question.  I could not get vmware-tools
to run in Ubuntu.  Are there distros where it is easy to setup?  And, I
am rebuilding the machine I had VMWare Server on.  So, I may change from
Ubuntu 7.10.  VMWare Server can't run on just any distro.  What do
others have the best luck with?  Centos 5.1 might be nice.  OpenSuse 11
has some tools for running VMWare machines, but they don't say they are
VMWare.  Are they building a compatible product?  My openSuse 11 machine
only has 256 megs of ram, so I won't be running the tools there.  But,
another machine(Pentium 4/3GHz with 2 gig ram) will probably get
openSuse when I get a new hard drive for it.
Good day,
Ralph

On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 01:41 -0500, David Simmons wrote:
> I've
> installed VMWare-tools on a CentOS 5.1 system (used as a nameserver ) that
> has been running fine for awhile (before the vmware-tools install). 
> Guess I shouldn't say 'fine' as the time-sync is way off.