---
title: "VMware time sync issues ntpd or not?"
date: "2009-12-22"
path: "/47-vmware-time-sync-issues-ntpd-or-not.html"
section: "/ramblings"
aliases:
  - "/47"
  - "/47-vmware-time-sync-issues-ntpd-or-not"
  - "/47.html"
  - "/ramblings/47-vmware-time-sync-issues-ntpd-or-not.html"
---

Damn time sync on VMware has been a right pain - servers would increase their running time every few days by several minutes - very annoying for time-based execution of scripts.

In summary I just ran ntpd :- primarily from: [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization](http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Time_Synchronization)

```
emerge -p openntpd
/etc/init.d/ntpd start
rc-update add ntpd default
```

Job done.