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To: "Michael McCaffrey" <michael@fxprojects.com>,
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Subject: Re: FreeBSD inside VMware loses time
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 00:28:46 +0800
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On Thursday 25 October 2001 3:54 pm, Michael McCaffrey wrote:
> host    -> Win2K
> guest   -> FreeBSD 4.4
> vmware  -> 2.04
> problem -> after about only 2 hours i run `date' and find out the clock
> has lost an entire hour. running `date' over and over and over indicates
> the clock is running at approximately 1/2 speed.

Hi there,

this is a normal behavior under vmware. there's an option in vmware-toolbox 
to periodically synchronize the clock with the host machine.

hope this help.

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