Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-10 Thread Shawn Barnhart
Gelsema, P (Patrick) wrote: I am having problems with the vmware tools. It seems to die, everytime when I start it or rebooted. Feb 10 13:22:25 wolverine kernel: pid 566 (vmware-checkvm), uid 0: exited on sig nal 12 (core dumped) $ uname -a FreeBSD wolverine.superhero.nl 7.0-RC2 FreeBSD 7.0-RC2

Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-10 Thread Gelsema, P (Patrick)
On Sat, February 9, 2008 20:40, Peter Boosten wrote: > Quoting Shawn Barnhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> When you installed the tools, did they require X to be operational? >> I'm not planning on running X. >> > Neither am I, so no X here. I am having problems with the vmware tools. It seems to d

Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-09 Thread Peter Boosten
Quoting Shawn Barnhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: When you installed the tools, did they require X to be operational? I'm not planning on running X. Neither am I, so no X here. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-09 Thread Shawn Barnhart
Peter Boosten wrote: In my /boot/loader.conf: kern.hz="100" I rebuilt the kernel with options HZ=100 and this seems to "fix" it -- ntpd sync'd immediately and the clock does not appear to drift. When you installed the tools, did they require X to be operational? I'm not planning on runni

Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-09 Thread Peter Boosten
Quoting Shawn Barnhart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 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

Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-09 Thread Shawn Barnhart
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