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A very useful document when you are working with virtualization, e.g. VMware, XEN, KVM, plus Windows platform.

Usually you may face time sync problem, whatever faster or slower than host. A very simple tip: setup a ntpd within host, and force client to keep ping and update it. The Linux ntpd is very simple and so I will not mention the detail setup, but how to client to be more hardworking?

Here is the most important setting:

Windows Time Service Group Policy Settings

You can configure most W32Time parameters by using the Group Policy Object Editor. This includes configuring a computer to be an NTPServer or NTPClient, configuring the time synchronization mechanism, and configuring a computer to be a reliable time source.

Note
- Group Policy settings for the Windows Time service can be configured on Windows Server 2003 domain controllers and can be applied only to computers running Windows Server 2003.

You can find the Group Policy settings used to configure W32Time in the Group Policy Object Editor snap-in in the following locations:
- Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Windows Time Service
Configure Global Configuration Settings here.

- Computer Configuration\Administrative Templates\System\Windows Time Service\Time Providers
Configure Windows NTP Client settings here.
Enable Windows NTP Client here.
Enable Windows NTP Server here.

IMHO, just set it as 100 if you have local ntpd server ;-)