He may have to tools installed, but I've found on Centos and BSD as guests, you generally have to turn it on in the vmx file. Guest != syncTime turned on.
EKG On Fri, May 16, 2008 1:38 pm, Tom Russo wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:14:06PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor, containing: >> Install VMWare tools in the Guest OS (under the "VM" menu selection in >> the console. >> >> Then, in the .vmx file for the guest os add "tools.syncTime=TRUE" and >> that will keep them in lockstep >> > > The virtual machine William's using has vmware tools installed already, > so this is not the issue. > > The problem is clock-speed related, and requires some tweaks to > *undocumented* > parameters in a vmware configuration file. > >> On Fri, May 16, 2008 1:10 pm, William McKeehan wrote: >> >>> Hahaha, I hear you, but actually, I've not had many problems with >>> Vista. >>> Once >>> I realized this problem was a firewall issue, it was easy to adjust >>> the Windows firewall to get around the problem. >>> >>> >>> >>> However, once I got the VMWare stuff up and running (BTW, the Xastir >>> install worked just fine once I corrected the firewall issue) I >>> noticed a small problem. >>> >>> The clock on the guest OS was moving along at a rather quick step (1 >>> minute per second or there about). None of the tricks that I found >>> from Google >>> corrected this, so I bailed on the VMWare install and reverted to the >>> Cygwin >>> install. >>> >>> So far, the Cygwin setup seems to be working just fine under Vista. >>> -- >>> William McKeehan >>> KI4HDU >>> http://mckeehan.homeip.net >>> Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/mckeehan >>> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, May 16, 2008 12:43 pm, Gerry Creager wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Reformat and install linux? Reformat and install XP? Either will >>>> work better than Vista... >>>> >>>> gerry >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Xastir mailing list >>> Xastir@xastir.org >>> http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Xastir mailing list >> Xastir@xastir.org >> http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir >> > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 AHTB#1 > http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > "It's so simple to be wise: just think of something stupid to say and > then don't say it." --- Sam Levinson > > > _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list Xastir@xastir.org http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir