How to keep a VMWare VM's clock in sync?

Question

I have noticed that our VMWare VMs often have the incorrect time on them. No matter how many times I reset the time they keep on desyncing.

Has anyone else noticed t

Answer 1

according to VMware's knowledge base, the actual solution depends on the Linux distro and release, in RHEL 5.3 I usually edit /etc/grub.conf and append this parameters to the kernel entry: divider=10 clocksource=acpi_pm

Then enable NTP, disable VMware time synchronization from vmware-toolbox and finally reboot the VM

A complete table with guidelines for each Linux distro can be found here:

TIMEKEEPING BEST PRACTICES FOR LINUX GUESTS http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006427