{"id":274,"date":"2008-06-16T21:01:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-17T04:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/?p=274"},"modified":"2008-06-16T21:01:34","modified_gmt":"2008-06-17T04:01:34","slug":"synchronize-host-and-guest-clocks-in-vmware-player-when-guest-os-loses-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/2008\/06\/16\/synchronize-host-and-guest-clocks-in-vmware-player-when-guest-os-loses-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Synchronize Host and Guest Clocks in VMware Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/vmware.com\/\">VMware Player<\/a> at work to run <a href=\"http:\/\/groundworkopensource.com\/\">Groundwork<\/a> which is a pretty neat network monitoring system &#8212; but more on that in another post. So one thing that was getting annoying was the guest OS (the one running on the virtual-ized system) had been losing time. I didn&#8217;t check how often but in the course of an hour it would be off by about 20 minutes at least. I knew of the vmware-tools package that was supposed to help the virtual OS run a little better and thought that would help it get the time as well. I also thought the tools were already installed but wasn&#8217;t sure. I tried looking in the Add\/Remove programs but didn&#8217;t find it so I decided to move to the command line.<\/p>\n<p><code>$ locate vmware<br \/>\n<\/code><br \/>\nwas enough to list quite a few files which was encouraging. I eventually found the vmware-tools in <em>\/usr\/bin<\/em> directory. I then ran the <em>vmware-toolbox<\/em> program and the first option I saw was &#8220;Time synchronization&#8221;. Exactly what I wanted. Now when i receive alerts about the network, the time will actually be correct. And my OCD is satiated as well. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been using VMware Player at work to run Groundwork which is a pretty neat network monitoring system &#8212; but more on that in another post. So one thing that was getting annoying was the guest OS (the one running on the virtual-ized system) had been losing time. I didn&#8217;t check how often but in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,10,6],"tags":[169,168,166,167],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.oliverhansen.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}