On Thu, 31 Jul 2008, A.K.Srikanth wrote:

> All,
> I have SL 4.4 on a Virtual Machine running on Windows 2003 as the host OS 
> and I have the infamous clock skew problem. The clock drifts and drifts on 
> the VM..... and NTP wont work. This is a well known problem with Redhat and 
> requires that the Vmware tools be installed and run.

  If you updated kernel to the latest 2.6.9-78.EL,
there is the boot parameter "divider" which may help
a guest to solve ntpd problem. Just add to grub.conf "divider=10",
like below:
 	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.ELsmp ro root=/dev/md0 divider=10
and you guest will run w/ 100Hz clock instead of 1000Hz.

>
> The problem is that I cant use Redhat compiled version of Vmware tools on SL 
> and because my VM was highly stripped down, the SL 4.4 does not have any 
> compilers etc. Before I have to go and painstakingly start installing all the 
> tools needed to compile, I wanted to see if any of you had a precompiled 
> version of _*VMWARE tools for SL 4.4*_. If you are willing to share, please 
> let me know
>
> Thanks,
> Sri
>

-- 
Best regards,
  Valery Mitsyn