new direction of the blog

i think it is time for me to change the direction for the blog.
from now on i will use it for jotting down my troubleshooting in Linux, Mac or Windows.

the first one will be how to sync the fast pacing seconds in vmware guest in Ubuntu Intrepid host.


Got the solution from another blogger.
basically the kernel send the value of processor time to vm kernel.
in some core 2 duo it will make the seconds go faster than the host itself. It cant be controlled even by the vm tools installed in the vm. Just need to put extra line in the vm setting.

quoting from the blog itself

"Turns out that my processors automatically scale down (Core 2 Quads), and so I needed to edit /etc/vmware/config and add the line host.cpukHz = 2400000 which is the correct one for my 2.4GHz CPU. After this, I restarted the vmware-server service, and the time is perfectly synced.

I was able to confirm the kHz number to use by running burnp6 from the cpuburn package on all four cores and looking at /proc/cpuinfo to see what speed it reached."