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Time sync is wonky with VMs. ADDR This should be explored further and documented. Early reports are that it can get out of sync by significant amounts (hours) fairly quickly. \[alexp, Athena VM\] This has been seen to happen at times even if the VMware Tools time synchronization option is enabled. On Athena virtual machines, this kills Kerberos and AFS since these depend sensitively on time. |
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alexp, Athena VM\] Leaving a VM suspended for about 5 days and subsequently resuming results in broken network and AFS. Restarting these as root did not fix them. It was necessary to reboot the VM. Athena 9.4.43 VMs can't be updated to latest release due to rpm conflict between WMware Tools in the VM and VMware Player in the Athena release (introduced after 9.4.43). |
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\[alexp, Athena VM\] adding a line: VMwarePlayer to */etc/athena/rpmupdate.exceptions* lets an Athena VM update correctly. However the user must then run vmware-config-tools.pl manually as root after the update to restore VMware Tools functionality. |
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\[alexp, Athena VM\] DHCP will work in an Athena VM if you first get a fixed IP address from Network, then register the machine for DHCP. If the VM is moved or cloned later you need to make sure that the MAC address it has is the same as it had when it was registered for DHCP. After the registration takes effect, you need to have the following entry in */etc/athena/rc.conf*:
ADDR=dhcp; export ADDR
vpnc works well as vpn within an Athena VM. To restore zephyr functionality on VM restart, you will likely need to run:
zctl load |
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VMware Fusion Virtual Machines are automatically excluded from Time Machine backups. This appears to be in response to an apple bug in 10.5 that may have been resolved in 10.5.2, though there is no formal word from VMware.See http://communities.vmware.com/message/882448#882448 for more info.
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