Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

[Peter Boosten]

Quoting Shawn Barnhart <swb at grasslake.net>:

> I know this is a major nuisance, but I can't remember how I dealt with
> it in the past.  My most recent stab at using ntpd with minpoll 4
> polling of a local ntp time source isn't working, the clock drift
> prevents any sync from happening (but I'll admit not trying some of the
> more aggressive time adjustment options to ntpd).
>
> VMWare's documentation and support leans pretty heavily toward Linux
> and I'm not finding a decent recommendation from them.
>
> I rebuilding a kernel with options HZ=100 to see if that makes a
> difference, not sure why I remember that helping, but any other
> strategies known to work?


In my /boot/loader.conf:

kern.hz="100"

In the vmx-file:
tools.synctime = "TRUE"

I installed the vmware tools and ntpd

That's about all.

ntpdate -d 192.168.23.15:

  9 Feb 20:26:47 ntpdate[45172]: adjust time server 192.168.23.15  
offset 0.057667 sec

Cheers,

Peter

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