I already posted a while ago that I had problems with the clock speed of my notebook and vmware guest systems. There are a lot of online resources about this problem. They state out that the power saving features of mobile processors could cause troubles in clock synchronization between host and guest systems.
There are additional articles in the vmware knowledge base about Configuring Virtual Machines to Run on a Laptop Host Computer. They all discuss the problems with Intel SpeedStep and CPU clock timing.
After applying the settings for the time stamp counters from the articles I did not get better results. I was wondering because I remembered running virtual machines on my notebook without a problem.
I tried to update the BIOS of my notebook to the newest version and after rebooting everything worked fine. It did not matter if I tried a Windows or Linux guest system - the clock was synchronized. Two days later I used the virtual machine again - and the problem was there again:
I tried all tips stated out in knowledge base article 928, 1236 and 2039 but nothing worked. I found out that after putting my notebook into hibernate and starting it again the clock synchronization does not work anymore. When I do a complete reboot everything works fine again.
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