Topic: Clock problems under VMWare

[RCFerguson]

I'm running SME server on a Fedora machine under VMWare, and am having problems with the clock keeping time correctly.
The first problem is that because I run several Windows virtual machines as well as Linux machines, I have the system clock on the server NOT set to UTC.  I have seen several posts here where the answer is always, "Set your server's hardware clock to UTC".  That is not really an option here.  I can go into /etc/sysconfig/clock and change the setting to FALSE, but it gets changed back every time I do anything on the server manager.  Is there a way to force the system to always use local time?
Additionally, I notice that even when the system is using local time the time on the SME server is off, usually by an odd number of minutes.  For instance, at 11:06am today I manually set the server time, and now the time is 12:09PM, but the SME server thinks it is 12:47PM.  I am running two other Linux virtual machines, one Ubuntu 8.04 and one Fedora 9, and the clocks on both those virtual machines are correct.

Anyone else with similar problems?


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[Stefano]

hi..

this is Not a sme issue.. all vm in vmware suffers the same problem

you can solve it installing vmware tools or setting a time server under 'date - time' panel in server-manager

HTH
ciao
Stefano

[RCFerguson]

Actually, I already installed vmware tools via rpm, but I'm not sure it's working... when I do a ps-ax | grep vmware I don't see vmware tools anywhere in the list.

[arne]

Search this forum. I once (a few months ago) postet a post something like "fantastic virtual sme server" and then someone asked me to check the time syncronisation. It apeared that it did not work properly. But the problem was solved in that tread, and I'm not able to remember how any more.

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I guess it was in this tread. As far as I remember the time syncronisation problem was solved OK for SME server but not for Astlinux. (At the moment I am running asterisk as a ad on to the virtual sme server and not a virtual Astlinux installation like before. I wonder if not the time syncro issue was the reason for this choice.) I tried to write down the info at that time for later refference and use, so I hope it can be used, even though I do not remeber the content at all.

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