Hello,
I have various virtual servers with the vmware tools installed (VMwareTools-8.6.0) under Debian 6.0 x64 and these are running over physical host with ESXI 5.0.0.
All the ESXI have ntp configure and working (tested that this is ok), and, noramally, the vmware tools work with the time sync, but, after a time, some virtual servers start a delay in time, a few minutes, 1-5, differing these time between virtual machines running over the same ESXI.
If i restart the vmware tools in the guests, the time syncs perfect, but why don't do this automatically?
I think various things:
1.- Why the vmware tools not sync correctly the date?
2.- Can I do a vmwre tools restart every night for keep the time sync? this have an other troubles?
3.- What is best, vmware tools or an ntp service?
4.- According to http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1006427 why the vmware tools are bad for this reason?
Thanks,