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On May 15, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Christopher Cowart wrote:
> We run a large number of FreeBSD servers under vmware. We've seen ntpd
> silently die, because the drift becomes "insane." What do others do in
> this situation? (We've resorted to croning ntpdate for VMs.)

You run ntpd in the parent OS, rather than in the emulated machines.

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-Chuck