Vmware Real Time Clock?

lotas · Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2002 10:45 pm Post subject: Vmware Real Time Clock?

in vmware, it looks for a device called /dev/RTC. Its not under gentoo. Is this an addon? Is it a kernel build thingy? Its anonying because win2k on VMware thinks time is a non exsistant thing. It takes it 3 hours for the clock to go up 20min. yet it also thinks its downloading @ about 600Kbytes/s when its really getting it @ about 70. It looks cool, but its a pain. I use it for kazaa and when downloading stuff its slow as something really slow. any ideas?
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

I wonder if this is the cause of many of the clock skew problems. I noticed mplayer looking for /dev/rtc earlier.
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HogRider · Apprentice Joined: 29 May 2002 Posts: 160

Windows 2000 requires the Real Time Clock to function proper. VMware utilizes the system's RTC for this function. The RTC function is part of your kernel config (re-roll your kernel)
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lotas · Posted: Wed Nov 27, 2002 12:17 am Post subject:

I noticed windows acting funny! All slow and not crashing

anyway, ill "re roll" the kernel. Cool way of describing it. Thanks for the help.
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