Hi Ethan, I've never heard of it, but Google for "linux vmware clock time skew" seems to yield a lot of hits. Hope that helps, -Mark From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ethan Post Sent: Tuesday, September 29, 2009 10:14 PM To: oracle-l Subject: Anyone every seen a VM image run in slow motion? Look at my watch...9:11 pm exactly. hit return on "sleep 60"... wait until it comes back, date on server says it took 60 seconds... Look at my watch...now 9:12 and 14 seconds...huh, never seen that before. This is VM ware by the way, Linux. Just wondering if anyone here has seen anything like this. Hard one to Google as I can figure out exactly what terms I would use. Thanks, Ethan