Vmware machine have not the same time that real computer

[goueg83460]

Vmware machine have not the same time that real computer.

I install Vmware server 1.0.5 on my unbuntu server. I note that after a few times vmware machine take late that real machine. All vmware machines have not the same late but it will be annoying with time to have much difference of time. Somebody have find the same problem ?? How to resolve it please.

[francois_tiers]

If you have install VMware-Tools and launch vmware-config.pl

you can open vmware-toolsbox and activate the sync of time after, update the time and restart the guest.

[goueg83460]

ok thanks but I don't use graphical linux this ubuntu server and there no graphical environement. And I don't find the command that allow to syn the time. Do you know it ? Thanks

[theanykey]

www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf

To shutdown power management try the following on a linux host's grub file:

Inside your /boot/grub/grub.conf file

Where the line starts with “kernel” …. Append: apm=off acpi=off noapic

[goueg83460]

I tried to insert in vmwareMachine.vmx syncTime= "true" but it seems that the problem is still existing.

Machine that I installed I essentially firewall engines.

[theanykey]

Is your host a laptop? Any power saving features enabled?

[goueg83460]

no I'm using real computer.

[theanykey]

Disable any NTP syncing on the host (if any)

Enable vmware-tools time sync (if you have not already)

edit/create a text file: /etc/vmware/config

The example presented here assumes that the host computer has a maximum speed of 1700MHz. The first line is the most important one. It should be your host computer's maximum speed in kHz -- that is, its speed in MHz times 1000, or its speed in GHz times 1000000. Add the following lines to your global configuration file:

host.cpukHz = 1700000

host.noTSC = TRUE

ptsc.noTSC = TRUE

To periodically correct the time (once per minute) when a guest clock runs slowly, VMware Tools must be installed in the guest. On the Options tab of VMware Tools in the guest, verify that Time synchronization between the virtual machine and the host operating system is selected.

[goueg83460]

ok but How install vmware tools when you don't have graphical environement ?

[theanykey]

If you installed the MUI for server, you can connect to it via a remote machine through a browser to http://x.x.x.x:8222 or https://x.x.x.x:8333, download the "console" and connect that way to delivery a graphical view of server. From here you can select to install tools on selected VMs.

If you do not have a MUI, you can grab the "console" application from our website and install it on your remote machine:

http://register.vmware.com/content/download.html