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yes, I agree, to have continues the x running is waste of resources. Should be good enough for this purpose with the command line. out of curiosity, how you install x window in rpath? With a conary update ? could not find it.

//Wolfgang

This took me a while to figure out, how to check if vmware tools are proper configured for the timesync. Short explanation: Check in .vmx file if you find the line tools.syncTime = "TRUE" if tools.syncTime = "FALSE" , then tools are installed, but sync feature is switched off. Long explanation: At n...

One more thing I forgot. Check in Vmware log file for this meassage, or sometimes it is displayed during boot of VM, you need to do more: ======================================================================================= Additional time issue with VMware: VMware Workstation has measured your CP...

Hi, Well, a little longer post. NTP, there are different time services, a lot of times called NTP, but in reality different names and protocols and ports real NTP and SNTP using port 123 (mostly used on 'nix systems) RFC-1305 Daytime protocol, using port 13 (mostly on DOS, windows systems) RFC-867 T...

Hi, Ok, here what i found out. Timezone setting in rPath, works, Manual Time setting in rPath works, when you try to set "Synchronize clock with Internet Server" it seems NOT to work. If you apply the check mark, in the result window it says always "ok", even if the configured timeserver is not reac...

Hi Dave, Cause found. As usual you have been completely right. 2 reasons. That there was no Alarm with negative result, is fixed with adding "Less then 0 = failure" That Sometimes test with FQDN fail, is to do that Vmware seems to have a problem with DNS when NAT is selected. See: http://communities...

Trying to make a complete install of a new appliance, to make sure there is no damage in appliance causing the graphs to disappear. On the company network I am on, I need a proxy setting (not transparent) , so the automatic upgrade download for appliance does not work. Then I tried it on mobile netw...

Hi, What is the correct way to set time in freeNATs? For example I want to use for all time display, UTC time. just set UTC and internet sync in rPath appliance? or need to be done more ? How do I know if rPath reaches ntp server on internet? When I only select UTC and ntp from internet, it looks li...

Hi Dave, Hope you had a good and interesting holiday! The load sim does not show up under the test modules. I have a copy of the same vm installed in Montreal (with some modified tests), if needed I can give you access and you can log in. Made screenshot of the history for the not displaying tests, ...

Have following situation, would need to monitor some servers, including DNS servers local, this works perfect with freeNATs, but would need also to check availability of some servers only reachable via a proxy server. Now this proxy server setting for each test (proxy server could be http/https/sock...