Description of problem: System time skews and lag behind hardware time / actual time. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: consistantly Steps to Reproduce: 1. go webmin -> hadware -> system time page: http://localhost:10000/time/ 2. sync system time & hardware time against NTP server 3. wait 10 mins 4. observer time skew Actual results: System time lags the actual and hardware time by 50% Expected results: No skew Additional info: In the above case Fedora 2 was ran in vmware.com's virtual machine version 4.5, with 96MB of memory, Pentium 4 2.4GHz, virtual harddisk 6GB emulated on virtual BusLogic SCSI. The bug on hardware clock was observed by using webmin v 1.140 at the hardware -> system time page. In about 10 mins after I sync both hardware and system time against NTP server, the skew of system time is observed that it is lagging behind by few mins. I belive the system time is running at half tick of clock, because it moved approx 5 mins in every 10 mins.
The Fedora refered here is : Fedora Core release 1.90 (FC2 test 1)
Refiled as kernel Closed - vmware isnt a supported platform. If it happens iwth FC2 do talk to vmware about it.