[Xastir] VMWare Network issue

Eric Germann ekgermann at cctec.com
Fri May 16 13:14:06 EDT 2008


Install VMWare tools in the Guest OS (under the "VM" menu selection in the
console.

Then, in the .vmx file for the guest os add "tools.syncTime=TRUE" and that
will keep them in lockstep

EKG


On Fri, May 16, 2008 1:10 pm, William McKeehan wrote:
> Hahaha, I hear you, but actually, I've not had many problems with Vista.
> Once
> I realized this problem was a firewall issue, it was easy to adjust the
> Windows firewall to get around the problem.
>
>
> However, once I got the VMWare stuff up and running (BTW, the Xastir
> install worked just fine once I corrected the firewall issue) I noticed a
> small problem.
>
> The clock on the guest OS was moving along at a rather quick step (1
> minute per second or there about). None of the tricks that I found from
> Google
> corrected this, so I bailed on the VMWare install and reverted to the
> Cygwin
> install.
>
> So far, the Cygwin setup seems to be working just fine under Vista.
> --
> William McKeehan
> KI4HDU
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>
>
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 12:43 pm, Gerry Creager wrote:
>
>> Reformat and install linux?  Reformat and install XP?  Either will work
>>  better than Vista...
>>
>> gerry
>
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