Re: Time keeps on slippin slippin slippin slippin... into the future...

[Eric S. <ej...@sh...>]

On 11/24/2010 09:15 AM, John Lange wrote:
> Just like the song says, the time on my SLES 11 server "keeps on
> slippin slippin slippin... into the future..."
>
> The vmware-guestd are started at boot and are running.
>
> The following modules are loaded:
>
> # lsmod |grep vm
> vmsync                  5440  0
> vmmemctl               10188  0
> vmblock                15124  1
>
> Yet clocks keeps skewing forward at a rapid pace.
>
> This VM is used for monitoring so the usual trick of putting ntpdate
> in a cron is not a good solution since it throws all the graphs off
> and causes false alerts and regular ntp is frustratingly stubborn
> about refusing to correct large clock skew.
>
> I can't seem to find any documentation on how these tools work or how
> to configure them to keep time synced with the host.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>

See 
http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1006427&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=23956052&stateId=1%200%2023952415

"Note: In all cases use NTP instead of VMware Tools periodic time 
synchronization."

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-Eric 'shubes'