VMware Workstation vs. Server

[Nathan Aubrey]

Are you sure VMware has access to your rtc ?
I have not experienced any of this on any of my machines. Not to the extremes 
I am assuming from your setup. 

On Thursday 14 December 2006 10:56, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> On Thursday 14 December 2006 08:12, Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> > On Thursday 14 December 2006 06:41, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> > > 2. Server and Player may have serious time-loss problems with Windows
> > > guest OS on a Linux host yet VMWare (the company) has never officially
> > > addressed this issue much less fixed it.  There are some workarounds
> > > posted in the forums but none of them have worked for me yet.
> >
> > Kurt,
> >
> > set windows to update it's time settings over the internet, like ntp.
> > That's the best fix I've found. Right click the clock, click on Adjust
> > Date/Time, click on Internet Time, select the check box and hit ok.
> >
> > Of course, this is all moot if you are not on the 'net.
> > This is an XP deal as well, may not work on others...
>
> Unfortunately, that hasn't worked at all in my experience.  The problem I
> run into is that the time changes too fast and any reasonable NTP client
> (whether the Windows built-in client or 3rd party) will refuse to adjust
> the time that much, each time it updates.  So I can get the time to re-sync
> each time I resume from a suspended session and when I do it manually every
> so often, but it won't update automatically.
>
> It irks me quite a bit that there even has to be "workarounds" for this. 
> This is something that VMWare needs to just fix for real, once and for all.
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