[Xastir] Better and/or Easier Way to Get Xastir on Windows

[Gerry Creager]

Clock drift has been an issue w/ VMWare since v1.0.  Using a drift 
correction file in ntpd.conf helps, but the nature of the clock 
algorithm they use makes ntp updates problemmatical.

gerry

Dan Brown wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Amateur Radio WB8NUT wrote:
> 
>> Eric,
>>
>> You are correct. However, I was trying to get people up on VMware Player 
>> which is a tad bit easier than VMware Server which I have also used.  
>> Another limiting factor with VMware Server, is that IF you have multiple 
>> virtual appliances running, you better have some decent memory like 1GB 
>> and above.
> 
> VMware really doesn't like trying to run more guest memory than you have
> physical memory in your host machine.  Tuning the amount of memory to "just
> enough what you need" inside the guest helps, especially if you have
> multiple guests (parasites?) on the same host. 
> 
> 
> The only issue I've seen -- and I need to upgrade my software and such, is
> that the clock inside the guest os can drift from reality.  AND, worse,
> that attempting to use ntpd can make things drift even more!  A drifting
> clock makes make (which is used in compiling Xastir) behave badly.  Xastir
> itself too.  This may be fixed in later versions of VMware, I was using the
> 4.5.2 "Workstation" version at the time I saw these issues. 
> 
> 
> 
> 73, 
> N8YSZ. 
> --
> Dan Brown 
> brown at brauhaus.org
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