Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT on VMWare ESXi

2009-10-08 Thread Grant Basham
I turn off time-sync in vmware tools and run ntp- in .../VMHOST.vmx tools.syncTime = FALSE It keeps good time, doesn't care much how busy VMHOST is, and does not require all the special configuration. A normal redhat install does an ntp setup. Use your own ntp server or make sure your

Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT on VMWare ESXi

2009-10-07 Thread Richard Vinke
On your host, you can switch of the clock frequency modelation (in the bios). This should help. Richard. Michael Colvin wrote: Is anyone running the QMT iso on a VMWare VM? I had one set up just to play with, but noticed the clock keeps horrible time. I was able to adjust the ticks to keep

Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT on VMWare ESXi

2009-10-07 Thread Sean Humphries
I am using QMT in hyper-v. I had the same issue (and some others). I upgraded to the new beta centos 5.4 kernel and most of my problems disappeared. It is available here http://people.redhat.com/dzickus/el5/164.el5/ There may be a newer kernel by now you will need to check. that one works for

Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT on VMWare ESXi

2009-10-07 Thread Kartone
I'm running QMT on a Vmware Server 2.0 on W2k3. It seems i don't have any time issue. Il giorno 07/ott/2009, alle ore 18.51, Sean Humphries ha scritto: I am using QMT in hyper-v. I had the same issue (and some others). I upgraded to the new beta centos 5.4 kernel and most of my problems

RE: [qmailtoaster] QMT on VMWare ESXi

2009-10-07 Thread Patrick Ring
Check whether the BIOS is using a speed-step or CPU power saving feature. If it is, disable it. This is one cause of time drift in VMWare. I have had problems, though, with CENTOS-based virtuals (in both VMWare Server (mostly) and in VMWare ESXi Server) where the time drifts (by as much as

Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT on VMWare ESXi

2009-10-07 Thread Brent Gardner
Michael Colvin wrote: Is anyone running the QMT iso on a VMWare VM? I had one set up just to play with, but noticed the clock keeps horrible time. I was able to adjust the ticks to keep it more accurate, along with an hourly sync, but this seems ridiculous. From what I've found, it's an issue

Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT on VMWare ESXi

2009-10-07 Thread Lucian Cristian
I use this on kernel boot line divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm this is recommended by vmware and never had problems since Regards Lucian Michael Colvin wrote: Is anyone running the QMT iso on a VMWare VM? I had one set up just to play with, but noticed the clock keeps horrible time. I was

RE: [qmailtoaster] QMT on VMWare ESXi

2009-10-07 Thread Joseph Lundgren
Although I am not running QMT on a ESX host, I have had several other ESX CentOS VMs that suffer from clock tick problems. I highly recommend installing the VMware tools. Installing those tools have resolved the problem every time for me. # mkdir /mnt/cdrom Open the VMware Infrastruce Client,

Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT on VMWare ESXi

2009-10-07 Thread Anil Aliyan
Dear Michael, Have u install vmware-tools in the centos qmt guest ??? And in ur ESXi server have u setup ntp server??? if both are set then ur maching should sync time with ur ESXi host time. I am using more than 10 ESX and ESXi server in my environment with amost every OS guest machines and

Re: [qmailtoaster] QMT on VMWare ESXi

2009-10-07 Thread Anil Aliyan
Make sure kenel-hearders rpm is installed before you install vmware-tools. - Original Message - From: Michael Colvin mcol...@norcalisp.com To: qmailtoaster-list@qmailtoaster.com Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 10:08 PM Subject: [qmailtoaster] QMT on VMWare ESXi Is anyone running