Problem
The time on the virtual machine is always wrong of a number of hours
Solution
This is actually a problem that was occurring long time ago, with very old versions of VmWare and RedHat Linux.
I have not seen this problem since years.
But, just in case it come up again:
- use the vmware-toolbox option "synchronize with host system"
This should work really in all cases with recent VmWare versions. - On Linux RH 6.1 and 6.2 the clock is set in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.
The default configuration prevents setting the clock and BIOS time. Comment out the lines:
$CLOCK $CLOCKFLAGS
action "Setting clock $CLOCKDEF: `date`" date
-- GianlucaChiozzi - 26 Jul 2005