[Xastir] VMWare Network issue

[Tom Russo]

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:35:22PM -0400, we recorded a bogon-computron collision of the <ekgermann at cctec.com> flavor, containing:
> 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.

That is not the case in the VM that William is using (which I created,
and which has vmware tools both installed and enabled).

> 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
> >>> KI4HDU
> >>> http://mckeehan.homeip.net
> >>> Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/mckeehan
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> 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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> > Tom Russo    KM5VY   SAR502   DM64ux          http://www.swcp.com/~russo/
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  then don't say it."  --- Sam Levinson