[Xastir] VMWare Network issue

[Eric Germann]

He may have to tools installed, but I've found on Centos and BSD as
guests, you generally have to turn it on in the vmx file.  Guest !=
syncTime turned on.

EKG


On Fri, May 16, 2008 1:38 pm, Tom Russo wrote:
> 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
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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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