VMware Workstation vs. Server

[Kurt Granroth]

Yes.  This is far from a rare problem, it seems.  A quick search on the
vmware forums shows scores of threads with people complaining about
exactly this.  Here's a representative thread:

http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=473120&#473120

And a choice quote:

"Vmware server is ruining my life here. This time sync issue is a
freakin disaster. I sold my boss on this technology and now after a lot
of time migrating and money dumped into hardware it's all going to hell
in a handbasket."

I wouldn't go that far since my use of it doesn't require that the clock
be in perfect sync (it just can't run fast... which is does every now
and then).  A co-worker was running some time-sensitive servers on his
systems, though, and this wreaked havoc for him.  He tried all of the
usual tricks but none helped.  So he had to go back to physical servers.

Nathan Aubrey wrote:
> 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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