On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:24 AM, Frank Mehnert <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 04 February 2009, fcassia wrote:
>> I have invested a lot of time and effort in getting certain beta
>> software working. :-)
>> I wonder if it'd be possible to have Virtualbox lie the date (hardware
>> clock) to the VM so it's always operating on the same date?
>
> Currently you can only set an offset to the guest time, see
>
>  VBoxManage modifyvm VM_NAME -biossystemtimeoffset

Time but not date... OK.

In any case it'd be easy to add a "fake clock" to the VM right? just
intercept calls to the hardware clock and return whatever
user-selected fixed value for the date...

Or perhaps there's a tool on Linux to fake the system time on a
per-process basis? Something like what this does in perl?
http://search.cpan.org/~rosulek/Time-Fake-0.11/lib/Time/Fake.pm
FC

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