On Sat, 2009-07-18 at 08:49 +0000, Konstantinos Agouros wrote: > I have a gentoo-guest in a virtualbox vm that is running on a mac. When I do > not use it I just put it to sleep and wake it up, when needed. Is there a > way that the guest recognizes the wakeup and than sets the time using ntpdate > or based on the clock of the host-os which is ntp-synchronized?
If you install the virtualbox guest additions in your Gentoo guest, virtualbox can take care of syncing your guest's clock with the host's clock. I use app-emulation/virtualbox-guest-additions on a development VM at work that I suspend every night, and the clock is always correct when I resume the machine in the morning. If I remember correctly, it is only necessary to start the virtualbox-guest-additions service for the clock syncing to work. My host machine is an XP box, but I suspect it should work the same for a Mac host. I do not have access to the machine from home, but if you cannot get it working, respond back and I would be happy to check my setup on Monday. Regards, Brandon Vargo
