Nagios Server in a Virtual Machine?

[Elias Probst]

On Friday 18 May 2007 21:20:48 Frost, Mark {PBG} wrote:
> Does anyone out there have experience running a Nagios server under a
> virtual machine (VM)?  Specifcally VMWare in a Linux VM?
>
> We currently run Nagios 2.9 on a physical box which is pretty adequate
> for the volume of hosts and service we check (300-400 hosts, 1800+
> services).
>
> I'm a little nervous about some of the things I've heard about VMs being
> a little off time-wise, but perhaps that would not be a problem for
> Nagios.
>
> I'm interested in any real experiences anyone might have running this
> way, pro or con.
>

I'm running several Nagios instances in VMware Server.
VMware published a great guide about timekeeping in VMs, it may help you 
avoiding timesync trouble:
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vmware_timekeeping.pdf

Regards, Elias P.
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