I have looked for solutions for this problem, but haven't found one that works for this system. Any help or pointers would be greatly appreciated.
The clock of the guest OS runs around 1.5x faster than that of the host OS. The problem is present whether the guest OS is idle or busy.
Among several things, I have disabled power management on the host. I have tried a time server which failed as the time drifted too fast. Also tried VMware tools, but it only corrects time when the guest falls behind, not when it goes ahead in time.
The host is:
One Dual-core Intel Xeon 5160 -- 3.00GHz; 12 GB
"SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1 (x86_64)"
VMware-server-1.0.4-56528 (the problem was also there for version 1.0.2)
cpufreq governor set to "performance" (so cpu frequency is always at 3 Ghz)
No other apps running except for vmware
The guest is:
Windows Server 2003 Enterprise
1 processor; 1 GB
c:\windows\system32\hal.dll internal name is halaacpi.dll
default "boot.ini"
Running VMware tools with time synchronization enabled
Running a database and other "periodic" daemons/services
Let me know if you have any questions or advice.