[Xastir] VMWare Network issue

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 11:35:44AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <russo at bogodyn.org> flavor, containing:
> On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:10:16PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <mckeehan at mckeehan.homeip.net> flavor, containing:
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> There are several reasons this can happen --- usually it's due to a confusion
> by vmware about what the host's clock speed is.  You could see that in action
> if you look at the "vmware.log" file in your virtual machine's folder --- it
> probably reports a guessed clock speed that is vastly slower than your real
> clock speed, and so it acts like it's running on crack.
> 
[...]
>   Their knowledge base is wretched, 
> as I've never been able to find anything helpful there, even when there was
> helpful stuff in the base (the search engine rots).

But by typing "host.cpukHZ" into their knowledge base query, I did find 
the answer to where to look for the file to edit on Windows:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=1227&sliceId=1&docTypeID=DT_KB_1_1&dialogID=64467114&stateId=0%200%2064465153

Good luck.

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