From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 9 19:35:25 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE9B716A418 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 19:35:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swb@grasslake.net) Received: from accord.grasslake.net (accord.grasslake.net [209.98.56.21]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9955B13C474 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 19:35:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from swb@grasslake.net) Received: from [192.168.1.152] (unknown [192.168.1.152]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) (Authenticated sender: swb) by accord.grasslake.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90A1FD020 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2008 13:35:24 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <47AE0079.2070804@grasslake.net> Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 13:35:21 -0600 From: Shawn Barnhart Organization: Managed Chaos User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD References: <47ADFB65.707@grasslake.net> <20080209202822.om3ysati0c4owoc4@www.boosten.org> In-Reply-To: <20080209202822.om3ysati0c4owoc4@www.boosten.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 19:35:25 -0000 Peter Boosten wrote: > In my /boot/loader.conf: > > kern.hz="100" I rebuilt the kernel with options HZ=100 and this seems to "fix" it -- ntpd sync'd immediately and the clock does not appear to drift. When you installed the tools, did they require X to be operational? I'm not planning on running X.