CactiEZ loosing time in vmware Server on Windows 2003

[helzerr]

[With curl installed]

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
sudo curl http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo -o CentOS-Testing.repo

or

[With wget installed]

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
sudo wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo

Replace centos/4 with centos/5 depending on which release of CentOS you're running.

- Ron -

[elhascampeador]

I'm not sure if time slippage is the reason for it, but my graphs are coming out with little gaps between peaks.

I'm running centos 4 on a Wink2k3 host, with a single processor kernel, VMWare tools are installed, and I've edited the .vmx file to make sure synch.time=true is there (was false before). I selected the options to run vmware tools after poweron, after resume, and before suspend.

I was having serious time lapse issues, which seem to have gone away - I've lost less than a second since 4pm tonight (it's 8.19pm now) whereas before I'd be 15 minutes behind already, which is why I am inclined to blame skewed time for the gaps in the graphs.

Anyone seen this before?

[spoonwzd]

Yep, this is defo time-slippage due to virtualisation CPU cycle handling.

If you're running CactiEZ v0.4 like me, then you can resolve the problem by installing the updated kernel.

Assuming that your CactiEZ appliance can connect to the Internet, the following commands from the root console login should do the trick;

cd /etc/yum.repos.d
sudo wget http://dev.centos.org/centos/4/CentOS-Testing.repo
yum --enablerepo=c4-testing install kernel-vm

Hope this helps!

[imro]

I have successfully installed the vm kernel. I have found out later that yum has updated the kernel with a new one that was not 100Hz. How can I set up yum so it only updates kernel with kernel-vm from testing repository. Furthermore I would like only the kernel be updated from testing repository and everything else from regular repositories.

Is it possible?

Thank you