If you’re having trouble with clock drift under Ubuntu in a VMware Fusion virtual machine, give this a go.
In /boot/grub/menu.lst, find the following line toward the bottom:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7-server root=UUID=[…] ro quiet splash
Add clocksource=acpi_pm to the end, like so:
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.27-7[…] ro quiet splash clocksource=acpi_pm
After you reboot your virtual machine your clock should be fine, but you really should take a snapshot of your virtual machine before doing this just in case.
(source: VMware’s Timekeeping best practices for Linux guests)
Published: Friday, 15th October 2010 at 5:16 PM
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