time goes slow in VmWare

[Michael Proto]

Frank Behrens wrote:
> Mark Dotson <mark at dmglobal.net> wrote on 19 Mar 2007 9:50:
>> (Add the following to /boot/loader.conf and reboot: kern.hz="100")
>>
>> Worked well for me.  I still have minor drift (about 5 minutes after  a 
>> week) but it can easily be handled by ntp at that point.
>>
>> I'd give that a try.  :-)
> 
> As I wrote in my previous post it does not work for me. :-(
> 

After setting kern.hz to 100, have you tried the following in the .VMX
file for this virtual machine:

tools.syncTime="TRUE"

Of course, VMWare-tools also needs to be installed in the guest. With
hz=100 and this setting I haven't seen much of this problem anymore.



-Proto