[Xastir] VMWare Network issue

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:14:06PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <ekgermann at cctec.com> flavor, containing:
> 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
> 

The virtual machine William's using has vmware tools installed already, so this
is not the issue.

The problem is clock-speed related, and requires some tweaks to *undocumented*
parameters in a vmware configuration file. 

> 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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