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

[David Simmons]

Ralph - it's a well known issue - dealing with the cpuspeed &
power-management issues on the host server.  Check out:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&externalId=1591

as far as your tools install issue - did you install from GUI or
from CLI?  There's quite a few resources for installing from the CLI
and maybe that'll show you more of a log/reason why it's not working
(you'll need to have something like gcc and the kernel-devel installed as
it'll need to compile a module).

HTH - Dave

>
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.
> 
> 
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