> If you wish to undertake "Guest Customization" reliably then you must
> interact correctly with the interfaces provided by the guest OS. These will
> of course change from release to release of the guest OS, so in general it is
> always necessary to adapt interactions as required by new guest
> If you wish to undertake "Guest Customization" reliably then you must
> interact correctly with the interfaces provided by the guest OS. These will
> of course change from release to release of the guest OS, so in general it is
> always necessary to adapt interactions as required by new guest
> still if adding hwclock command back has no conflict, it will be great
helpful for customers.
Unfortunately hwclock is in universe so we cannot easily ship it
automatically any more. We'd have to promote it back to main first. So
it isn't so easy.
If you wish to undertake "Guest Customization"
Thanks Robie for the information, this is exactly the VMware guest
customization updating in the next vSphere 8.0 update release which is
"Using timedatectl command to set hardware clock since Ubuntu 23.10".
However as Ubuntu 24.04 is LTS, it's widely supported on vSphere 8.x
line, without
Thanks for the suggestion.
I have passed your suggestions along to the Guest Customization team
along with links to this bug report in an internal bug.
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Here's some more background:
https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-
devel/2011-May/002526.html
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/2039206
Title:
open-vm-tools "hwclock" needed
The reason hwclock isn't shipped any more is that Ubuntu now uses
systemd's functionality to perform the same task instead. To configure
RTC translation between UTC and local time, the primary supported method
is now "sudo timedatectl set-local-rtc 0" or "sudo timedatectl set-
local-rtc 1". See
** Tags added: server-triage-discuss
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Title:
open-vm-tools "hwclock" needed for VM guest customization not
available
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Can confirm this issue still exists with Noble Numbat 24.04 with open-
vm-tools 12.3.5-5build1.
Is there a plan to resolve this before 24.04 is released?
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** Also affects: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Noble)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Confirmed
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Title:
open-vm-tools "hwclock" needed for VM
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu Mantic)
Status: New => Confirmed
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