Vmware Guest Clock Issue

The following article explains how to correct it.

Host Power Management Causes Problems with Guest Timekeeping on Linux Hosts

1. turn on sync time with host in vmware tools

2. add the following lines in /etc/vmware/config (2000000 is my machine's highest CPU frequency).

host.cpukHz = 2000000
hostinfo.noTSC = TRUE
tools.syncTime = TRUE