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From: Frank Mehnert <[email protected]>
To: Community mailing list of VirtualBox users 
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wed, August 11, 2010 2:37:53 PM
Subject: Re: [VBox-users] About the clock

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>that is not entirely correct. The guest clock is synchronized with
>the host clock but not the other way around -- the guest is NOT able
>to change the clock of the host.

>The synchronization of the guest clock is done by two means:

>1. The virtual RTC of the guest is set ONCE during the VM startup
>   to match the time of the host. Every second the virtual RTC is
>   advanced by one second, so both clocks, the virtual RTC of the
>   guest and the clock of the host are synchron.

>2. Under certain circumstances, the guest clock can drift away from
>   the host clock. Therefore the guest additions have a mechanism
>   to slowly synchronize the guest clock with the host clock.

>If you want to set the guest clock to a time different from the host,
>you must disable the time synchronization of the guest additions (the
>easiest way is to uninstall the guest additions). Then you can change the
>guest time. This change will not have any impact on the host. Each guest
>has its own virtual time.


Hi Frank,

Thanks for your advice.

I need VboxGuestAddition for sound and "copy & paste" btw vm and hose.

Problem solved as follows;

Change to past date:-

VBoxManage modifyvm <name of VDI> --biossystemtimeoffset -<msec>

msec = number of days (backward/forward) x 60 x 60 x 1000

To reset to present date (today)
VBoxManage modifyvm <name of VDI> --biossystemtimeoffset 0


B.R.
Stephen L


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