time goes slow in VmWare

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Tue Mar 27 09:32:16 UTC 2007


On 20/03/07, Sergey Matveychuk <sem at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > The solution is to install the VMware or VirtualPC supplied drivers
> > for your environment. They'll include, amongst other things, fixes for
> > the RTC and timer drivers which will fix your clock skew issues (and
> > if you've noticed, things like "sleep" acting oddly.)
>
> What do you mean as 'VMware supplied drivers'?
> vmware-guestd is running. No other special driver I know.
>
> BTW. Setting HZ=100 does help. Thanks!

vmware will load some kernel drivers as well as run the guest daemon.
Just make sure the guest daemon is doing time sync.


Adrian

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