slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

[Robert Fitzpatrick]

On 12/21/2009 10:22 AM, Steve Polyack wrote:
>>
>> I loaded ESXi and a FreeBSD 8.0 guest last night and this morning it
>> is still keeping time OK without any changes to loader.conf.
>>
>
> I'm trying to test this out now without openntpd, but with kern.hz=100
> still set.  You will definitely want kern.hz=100 or something lower than
> the default of 1000, otherwise your guests will use up a decent portion
> of your hosts CPU time, even when idle.  Try it and see the difference.

Yes, I see the difference using 100, thanks.

I guess we're not able to install vmware-tools for 8.0 since the install 
does not find a FreeBSD8.0 kernel module? Not that I used them much on 
VMware Server, I was curious if they work any better on ESXi for 
FreeBSD8.0. Had to make changes to the script used to restart before and 
it didn't show IP, etc. I assume this hasn't changed though?

--Robert