I have VMware and definitely notice the clock issue regardless of which OS is the guest. I was thinking about making my host system (Fedora Core 4 x86-64) an NTF server to sync the guest VMs. On 3/8/06, LiShan Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > > I just installed Oracle Clusterware using VMWare Workstation 5.5. I > noticed the two virtual machines clocks get out of synch. The voting disk > and OCR files which are located in a shared storage have different > timestamp. > > root oinstall 2277376 Mar 8 15:46 OCRFile > > root oinstall 2277376 Mar 8 15:47 OCRFile > > They seem to be corrupt. > > ./ocrcheck > Status of Oracle Cluster Registry is as follows : > Version : 2 > Total space (kbytes) : 262144 > Used space (kbytes) : 1992 > Available space (kbytes) : 260152 > ID : 1601284539 > Device/File Name : /u02/oradata/rac/OCRFile > Device/File needs to be synchronized > with the other device > Device/File Name : /u02/oradata/rac/OCRFile_MIRROR > Device/File integrity check failed > n > Cluster registry integrity check failed > > > Has anyone experienced same problem using vmware? > Not sure how to get the OCR files synched again? > > > TIA > > LSC > > >