I just noticed that the clock on my guest Windows XP system was running way too fast on my host Ubuntu Gutsy system. I had also noticed that double clicking seemed really difficult and there were a few anomalies with sound.
A bit of Googling turned up this tip from the VMware knowledge base. So to fix things I added these lines to the bottom of /etc/vmware/config.
host.cpukHz = 3060000 host.noTSC = TRUE ptsc.noTSC = TRUE
Now the clock and lots of other things are better.
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Excellent, will try this asap.
A hint, to find out your CPU’s speed in a Linux host, type ” cat /proc/cpuinfo,
and look for a line beginning with “cpu MHz”
By the way, I searched for “vmware gutsy clock” in Google, and got this page.
Thank you very much for sharing.
A bit more detail on finding (and setting) your host’s cpu speed : http://blog.autoedification.com/2006/11/vmware-guest-clock-runs-fast.html
Thanks.
A bit more detail :
Find out current settings : cpufreq-info
I have a dual-core CPU, so I need to ran cpufreq-set twice :
cpufreq-set -c 0 -g performance
cpufreq-set -c 1 -g performance
This should put the CPU cores into a fixed (maximum) speed.
To ensure the new setting has been applied, check again : cpufreq-info
Then the clock in the VMware guests should behave better. If not, try the suggestion in the post above.
Hope it helps.
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