Markus Rehbach <markus.rehbach@gmx.de> writes:

>Jack Snodgrass wrote:

>>
>> I can't figure ntpd out.
>>
>> I've got it configured ( using the defaults ) on a fedora 8 box.
>>
>> It starts and runs... it just doesn't keep my non-stable-clock system up
>> to date. If I let my vmware guest run for 24 hours, the time on the
>> vmware guest gets off by about 2 hours.
>>

>Try to set host.useFastClock = FALSE in /etc/vmware/config. NTPD could
>work then.....

Why in the world would you use ntp in a virtual machine. Use it in the
underlying operating system, and have the virtual machine get its time from
there. As has been pointed out the virtual machine's clock is virtual, and
could be stopped for arbitrarily long times, as the underlying system does
other things.