Peter, if this is inside a VMWare virtual machine someone mentioned there is a formal way to set it up to use the base machine's time. Run ntp on the host OS and let VMWare use the host system's clock. Otherwise you are going to live with a system VERY screwed up for time.
Yes the host OS is completely stable in time (0.06 seconds per hour adjustment) but the virtual machines are all over the place.
I've spent many long hours with VMware support trying to get the time synchronisation working but for some reason Fedora won't do it. I have options like these turned on but to no avail
tools.syncTime = "TRUE" time.synchronize.continue = "TRUE" time.synchronize.restore = "TRUE" time.synchronize.resume.disk = "TRUE" time.synchronize.shrink = "TRUE"
Unfortunately Fedora is not a supported guest OS for VMware GSX so their final recommendation was to use a different OS :(
ntpdate every 2 minutes keeps it in check but I was hoping the full blown ntp daemon would be able to make the fine tuning necessary to smooth it out. Doesn't appear so :(
-- Regards, Peter Kiem
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