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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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On Wed, 2005-Dec-07 15:39:04 -0800, Ed wrote:
>With all due respect, "vmware plays fast and loose with the clocks" is not 
>a satisfactory technical explanation.

Hi-jacking unrelated e-mail threads and top posting is not good
etiquette either.

>It is no doubt true that those of us who run FreeBSD in VMWare are a 
>minority of a minority,

I run FreeBSD in VMware at work.  After installing vmware-tools and
telling VMware to use the host clock I haven't seen any clock problems
(definitely in 5.x and I don't recall seeing any in 4.x or 6.x).

-- 
Peter Jeremy