Re: VMware and mirror/multimaster

[Martin Simovic <msimovic@concurrent-thinking.com>]

yes, there are issues with a clock in vmware virtual hosts. ntpd is not
a solution, the right way is to run ntpd on physical machine and set up
virtual machines to sync clock with the physical one (using vmware
tools)

M.

On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 18:21 -0700, Howard Chu wrote:
> Dave Horsfall wrote:
> > Has anyone tried mirroring or multimaster under VMware i.e. are the
> > virtual clocks stable enough?  We're starting to use VMware to cut down on
> > the number of physical hosts, but I'd like to use the latest 2.4 features
> > as well.
> >
> I don't have any long-term experience with that setup, just use VMware for 
> short-duration tests. My suspicion is that the clock stability isn't very 
> good, and ntpd can't correct for it...
>