Mike's Planet » vmware http://www.mikesplanet.net Just a Big Ball of Gas Fri, 03 Jun 2011 01:15:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Book Sale http://www.mikesplanet.net/2010/08/book-sale/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=book-sale http://www.mikesplanet.net/2010/08/book-sale/#comments Tue, 10 Aug 2010 19:57:04 +0000 Mike http://www.mikesplanet.net/?p=487 VMWare Cookbook
O’Reilly (Yah Reilly) has the ebook version of VMWare Cookbook, written by my good freinds Ryan Troy and Matthew Helmke from the Ubuntu Forums, on sale for $9.99. It is a must for any VMWare admin.

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]]> http://www.mikesplanet.net/2010/08/book-sale/feed/ 1 VMware Workstation: Fixing Time in Linux Guest OS http://www.mikesplanet.net/2007/08/vmware-workstation-fixing-time-in-linux-guest-os/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vmware-workstation-fixing-time-in-linux-guest-os http://www.mikesplanet.net/2007/08/vmware-workstation-fixing-time-in-linux-guest-os/#comments Fri, 24 Aug 2007 16:39:57 +0000 Mike http://www.mikesplanet.net/2007/08/vmware-workstation-fixing-time-in-linux-guest-os/ I recently had troubles with Gutsy in a guest OS under VMware Workstation (Linux) on my laptop. The clock in my Gutsy guest OS would run much faster than my host computer. The problem is caused by computers using dynamic CPU speed technology.

Here is a workaround I have found:

  1. Edit your /etc/vmware/config

    sudo vim /etc/vmware/config

  2. Add the following line to /etc/vmware/config

    host.cpukHz = x
    host.noTSC = TRUE
    ptsc.noTSC = TRUE

    x = Max CPU speed in kHz (i.e. 2GHz CPU = 2000000)

  3. Install VMware Tools in Guest OS
  4. Verify that Time synchronization between the virtual machine and the host operating system is selected
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