VMWare and best practices for Timekeeping
Lately I’ve been getting a lot of requests for timekeeping best practices for VMWare
VMWare has a great support article on this. Below are the SLES recommendations. The article can be found here
| SLES 11 (All updates) | No additional kernel parameters required. | |
| SLES 10 SP4 on ESX 5.0 and later | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP4 on ESX 4.x | Use a VMI enabled kernel. | |
| SLES 10 SP3 on ESXi 5.0 | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP3 on ESX 3.5 and 4.x | Use a VMI enabled kernel. | |
| SLES 10 SP3 on ESX 3.0.x and earlier | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP2 on ESXi 5.0 | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP2 on ESX 3.5 and 4.x | Use a VMI enabled kernel. | |
| SLES 10 SP2 on ESX 3.0.x and earlier | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 SP1 | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 10 | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 9 (All updates) | clock=pmtmr hpet=disable |
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| SLES 8 | No additional kernel parameters required.… Continue reading |