30 Jul
2008
30 Jul
'08
4:06 a.m.
On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Howard Chu wrote:
Martin Simovic wrote:
yes, there are issues with a clock in vmware virtual hosts. ntpd is not a solution, the right way is to run ntpd on physical machine and set up virtual machines to sync clock with the physical one (using vmware tools)
Even that is insufficient; the clock synchronization is neither continuous nor deterministic so there are long periods of time where the virtual clocks drift before they're corrected by the next sync.
So *that* explains the many critical NTP warnings that I get from Nagios when I monitor the remote host/guest...
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