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the clock in your virtual machine may run too fast or too slow

That's the problem: your CPU is sometimes running faster than VMware Workstation expects it to be running. See Knowledge Base article 709 for one workaround.

There is also a workaround that doesn't require you to lock the CPU speed to a constant value: put the correct maximum CPU speed in your global config file. On Linux hosts this file is /etc/vmware/config. On Windows hosts, it is normally C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\VMware\VMware Workstation\config.ini. In both cases, the file may not exist; if so, create it. Be sure to create it as a plain text file. On Windows, you can use Notepad, but be careful when saving the file that Notepad does not add an extra .txt extension to the filename.

If your machine is 1700 MHz maximum speed, the lines to add to this file are as follows. The first line is the most important one.

host.cpukHz = 1700000
hostinfo.noTSC = TRUE
tools.syncTime = TRUE

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