Here is my small, crude, little Kickstart configuration and post install script that I have up and running in my lab at home. Don't expect to find anything too fancy here, as this Kickstart was purposefully built to be small and to the point. Here, the point was to spin up a VM, run through a basic install of CentOS/Redhat Linux, and install VMware Tools along with a Puppet agent.
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How to Configure NTP in a RHEL/CentOS Vmware Guest
HourglassSuccessful time keeping in a Virtual Machine can be a bit confusing. At times I have been told to use Vmware Tools to sync time between the Guest and the Host, and at time I have been advised to avoid this functionality and use NTP. The following information is direct from a VMwareKB article (updated, 4/16/2010) so I am going to follow their lead on this and use NTP exclusively.