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Solving time drift problem on Ubuntu VMWare Guest

I have an Ubuntu VMWare guest, and having trouble with time drift. After a bit twiddling with ntp synchronization and still getting unacceptable time drift, finally I read a post in http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=471784 : From: Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA To: 471784@bugs.debian.org Subject: Please recommends open-vm-source Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:13:22 +0900 I had a same problem, and resolved following commands: * sudo aptitude purge open-vm-tools * sudo reboot * sudo aptitude install open-vm-source * pager /usr/share/doc/open-vm-source/README.Debian * sudo module-assistant prepare open-vm * sudo module-assistant auto-install open-vm * sudo aptitude install open-vm-tools * sudo reboot I done the steps above, and it seems to work perfectly. Oh, I didn't do the reboot parts nor the pager one. EDIT: Seems that its not enough. I have a AMD Phenom x4 CPU, which have some anomalies in regard to CPU clock speed. The problem is, the CentOS 4.6 Host detected that the CPU hav