[ale] Clock Drift in VMware Server

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Thu May 28 16:53:55 EDT 2009


I'm running VMware Server 2.0 on Centos 5.2 and I have 5.2 guests.  The
clock drift on the guests is horrible.  I've written a script that
updates the clock

28 May 10:34:51 ntpdate[4522]: step time server 198.137.202.16 offset
558.557700 sec
28 May 11:43:41 ntpdate[12168]: step time server 216.14.97.75 offset
525.761734 sec
28 May 12:49:42 ntpdate[19722]: step time server 69.31.13.210 offset
357.566419 sec
28 May 13:54:41 ntpdate[27432]: step time server 209.104.4.231 offset
298.270392 sec
28 May 15:01:02 ntpdate[2459]: step time server 66.79.148.39 offset
378.376557 sec
28 May 16:08:38 ntpdate[10010]: step time server 207.171.30.106 offset
454.967227 sec


It runs every hour but look at that drift.  Is there anything I can do
to remedy this?

Chris




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