[ale] VMWare Server and time

[cfowler at outpostsentinel.com (Chris Fowler)]

I'm still running VMWare Server and have never really solved time issues
in the guests.  The problem I'm halving is that the clock in each guest
drifts so bad I have to constantly update it.  I have a script that will
execute ntpdate every hour.  Here is a part of the log



10 Aug 00:53:15 ntpdate[16209]: step time server 69.31.13.210 offset
13.118829 sec
10 Aug 01:53:06 ntpdate[19433]: step time server 75.144.70.35 offset
-12.301576 sec
10 Aug 02:53:13 ntpdate[22663]: step time server 69.10.36.3 offset
5.684093 sec
10 Aug 03:53:52 ntpdate[26002]: step time server 216.184.20.83 offset
37.277543 sec
10 Aug 04:54:08 ntpdate[29719]: step time server 207.171.30.106 offset
14.900770 sec
10 Aug 05:54:10 ntpdate[517]: adjust time server 69.93.111.178 offset
0.231262 sec
10 Aug 06:54:12 ntpdate[3808]: adjust time server 207.171.30.106 offset
0.045966 sec
10 Aug 07:54:13 ntpdate[7029]: step time server 64.73.32.134 offset
-1.187768 sec
10 Aug 08:55:03 ntpdate[10259]: step time server 69.63.177.217 offset
47.613517 sec
10 Aug 09:54:40 ntpdate[13547]: step time server 208.94.240.2 offset
-24.475964 sec


It seems as the host's load increases the clock drifts more.  Is this
just a fact of VMWare server?

Chris