Trying to deploy vmware for some services, I found some problems: time is going slow, very slow sometime in guest.

I've found some interesting links online, like . But the provided solutions didn't work. First clock= is depreciated. and all possible values didn't solve the problem: a very very slow clock. I got this article on vmware KB, which explained in details what is going on with clocks:

Finally I understood that

 HZ=1000

is the source of all problems. clock=pit or others are only weak solution. So just recompiled the guest kernel with a

 HZ=100

and all is going fine.

yes time is important especially for KDC server