Re: VMware and mirror/multimaster

[Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com>]

Dave Horsfall wrote:
> Has anyone tried mirroring or multimaster under VMware i.e. are the 
> virtual clocks stable enough?

This very much depends on the hardware your host system is running on 
and the guest OS you're using.

Example but without OpenLDAP:
I've prepared a VM running Debian Linux 4.0 Etch for a customer with 
VMWare workstation on my old Linux notebook and had many time sync 
problems running it locally. But I did not bother tweaking the guest OS' 
kernel settings for solving this because in production it runs on a ESX 
cluster on very fast hardware. No clock sync issues there at all. BTW: 
It's using Kerberos so everybody would recognize a significant clock 
skew. ;-)

There is clock sync information by VMWare.

Ciao, Michael.