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Operating Systems Linux Red Hat NTP Server issue
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Old 09-24-2013
It is possible to have a NTP server running on VMware (5.1 in my case). But you have to make sure, that the host's clock is close to accurate, meaning ESXi's NTP client has to be configured properly.

That's because a VM syncs its time with the host at boot time, even if timesync is disabled in the VMs configuration. Now if the host's time is off by a greater timespan, the guest's clock is off too, because of the boot-time timesync with the host and the NTP daemon will not be able to adjust the guest's clock and synchronize to it's upstream NTP servers.

Last edited by hergp; 09-24-2013 at 06:55 AM.. Reason: some rephrasing
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Net::NTP(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     Net::NTP(3pm)

NAME
Net::NTP - Perl extension for decoding NTP server responses SYNOPSIS
use Net::NTP qw(get_ntp_response); my %response = get_ntp_response(); ABSTRACT
All this module does is send a packet to an NTP server and then decode the packet received into it's respective parts - as outlined in RFC1305 and RFC2030. DESCRIPTION
This module exports a single method (get_ntp_response) and returns an associative array based upon RFC1305 and RFC2030. The response from the server is "humanized" to a point that further processing of the information received from the server can be manipulated. For example: timestamps are in epoch, so one could use the localtime function to produce an even more "human" representation of the timestamp. EXPORT get_ntp_response(<server>, <port>); This module exports a single method - get_ntp_response. It takes the server as the first argument (localhost is the default) and port to send/recieve the packets (ntp or 123 bu default). It returns an associative array of the various parts of the packet as outlined in RFC1305. It "normalizes" or "humanizes" various parts of the packet. For example: all the timestamps are in epoch, NOT hexidecimal. SEE ALSO
perl, IO::Socket, RFC1305, RFC2030 AUTHOR
Now maintained by Ask BjA~Xrn Hansen, <ask@develooper.com<gt> Originally by James G. Willmore, <jwillmore (at) adelphia.net<gt> or <owner (at) ljcomputing.net<gt> Special thanks to Ralf D. Kloth <ralf (at) qrq.de<gt> for the code to decode NTP packets. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2009 by Ask BjA~Xrn Hansen; 2004 by James G. Willmore This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. perl v5.12.3 2011-06-05 Net::NTP(3pm)