gNewSense & Xubuntu VMware guest clock loses time

gNewSense & Xubuntu (Edubuntu & Ubuntu) 6.06 VMware guests lose time (clock runs slowly) if :

• you are not using clock=pit
• you are not running the vmware-guest deamon
• you haven't added tools.syncTime = "TRUE" to your vmx file
• you've updated your kernel (which stops the vmware-guest deamon !)

You can fix this by

• add clock=pit to the kernel line in /boot/grub/menu.lst
• update-grub
• (get latest kernel headers)
• vmware-config.pl
• reboot

check that

• pstree -capl | grep guest

displays

• vmware-guestd,4555 --background /var/run/vmware-guestd.pid

Read more about you needn't shouldn't use NTP to solve these problems in the VMware white paper "Timekeeping in VMware Virtual Machines" hidden in http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/ as http://www.vmware.com/resources/techresources/238