PIAF 1.1 VM Time issue

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I have successfully installed PIAF under VM Player on a WinXP host. I have run the update-scripts and update-fixes. I then discovered a time issue.

My PIAF time is about 7 hours behind my host time. I have verified that my timezone was correct using config.

I have downloaded the vm kernel version as per the Virtual Machine instructions on this site. I confirmed that I am booting to Kernel 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5vm. I rebuilt zaptel with only ztdummy.

The date is still 7 hours behind. Time is correct in WinXP and in the BIOS.

I have (cough cough) Trixbox 2.2 VM on the same machine and when I booted to it the time in TB was correct.

Am I overlooking something?

Thank you in advance for any help.

Here is the CPU info if that helps:
processor : 0
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 14
model name : Intel(R) Celeron(R) M CPU 440 @ 1.86GHz
stepping : 8
cpu MHz : 1862.101
cache size : 1024 KB
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 10
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss nx constant_tsc up pni
bogomips : 3746.96

Here is the Memory info if that helps:
MemTotal: 255632 kB
MemFree: 85044 kB
Buffers: 12276 kB
Cached: 83836 kB
SwapCached: 0 kB
Active: 91452 kB
Inactive: 63188 kB
HighTotal: 0 kB
HighFree: 0 kB
LowTotal: 255632 kB
LowFree: 85044 kB
SwapTotal: 524280 kB
SwapFree: 524280 kB
Dirty: 48 kB
Writeback: 0 kB
AnonPages: 58544 kB
Mapped: 22076 kB
Slab: 10756 kB
PageTables: 2124 kB
NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
Bounce: 0 kB
CommitLimit: 652096 kB
Committed_AS: 257376 kB
VmallocTotal: 770040 kB
VmallocUsed: 2872 kB
VmallocChunk: 766928 kB
HugePages_Total: 0
HugePages_Free: 0
HugePages_Rsvd: 0
Hugepagesize: 4096 kB

 

[jroper]

Hi

I've noticed that with my VMware sessions, PBX or others. Just go into the BIOS of the VMware session and set the clock correctly.

Joe

 

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RESOLVED: PIAF 1.1 VM Time issue

Joe

Thank you for your timely advice.

I did not even realize that VMware had a BIOS. Guess it stands to reason that it would.

Pressed F2 on initial boot screen, changed to the correct time, and BINGO - all sweet. Just goes to show that sometimes you don't see what is right in front of your face!!

Thanks again.

Graham

 

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SPOKE TOO SOON - Time drift

I spoke too soon. Now my VMbios clock is loosing time compared to my winXP time

 

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UPDATE: Losing 4 minutes every 1/2 Hour

Looks like I am loosing about 4 minutes after 30 minutes of monitoring

 

[mat.phillips]

This is a well documented issue.

The best thing to do is shut the VM down and edit the .vmx file and add the following line:

tools.syncTime = "True"

Install the vmware tools if you have not already done so. The reasons for the time drift are complex but if you are interested enough, VMWare have a few whitepapers on the issue.

 

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No ISO to install VMtools from

Mat

Thanks for your reply.

I am using VMplayer so I do not have an iso to install from. Where can I get a copy of VMtools?

Graham

 

[mat.phillips]

Hmm, not sure. I've only used the player briefly, how did you create the machine? From what I remember, player can only run an existing virtual machine that's been created using server. If you still have access to the server, fire the VM up in that. On my server, there's a collection of iso files for various OS's and they contain the VMWare tools. The one you want may be at:
/usr/src/vmware/vmware-server-distrib/lib/isoimages/linux.iso

 

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Mat

I have looked and the file you advised is included in the VMplayer.

On my WinXP host version, it is located in:
c:\program files\VMware\VM Player\linux.iso

I will install and report my time sync findings.

Cheers

Graham

 

[alben]

Hi
can you please give me directions of how to install vmware tools?
I have piaf -win xp-centos working fine exept the clock issue
so far I added
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-92.1.22.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 clock=pit nosmp noapic nolapic
but didnt fix
should i look for vmware tools for centos or for winxp, where is this installed?
thanks a lot