Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

I’m sorry folks, I got wrapped up in the ways of the physical world and then was sick the past few days.
Recently I tried installing vmware tools in a Ubuntu 8.04.1 JEOS Server virtual machine with no success.  After a bit of googling, I came across the Peter Cooper’s blog that outlined the procedure rather [...]

In order to avoid a drifting time clock in “ubuntu server 7.10″ vmware guest machine on an ubuntu 8.04 host, you need to do a few things:

/etc/vmware/config

host.cpukHz = 2000000  <– replace # with speed of your cpu (2GHz listed here)
host.noTSC = TRUE
ptsc.noTSC = TRUE

‘clock=pit’ added to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst
tools.syncTime = “TRUE” in [...]