Vmware-Tools and time synchronization
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There are several reasons for installing Vmware Tools in the guest-OS:
- Better network performance by using vmxnet module
- May be better Virtual-disk speed because
/etc/init.d/vmware-tools
sets uphdparms
. - Time synchronization hetween host & guest OS.
Installation:
- Install Virtual Machine (e.g. SuSE 9.3 used here) with
pcnet32
network module (default) including the kernel sources. - Run Yast Online Update
you
. This updates the packets + kernel + kernel sources. - Reboot.
- Install the Vmware-Tools. We use the
dc:/pub/software/RPM/VMwareTools-5.5.1-19175.i386.rpm
which compiles better with 2.6 kernals then the variant distributed with vmware-gsx-server.rpm -i VMwareTools-5.5.1-19175.i386.rpm
. - Now we have to configure the kernel sources:
cd /usr/srs/linux make cloneconfig make prepare
- Now we can successfully run
/usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl
and follow the instructions. - Run
vmware-toolbox
and check button [[Image:Options->Time synchronization ...]] .