On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Frank Mehnert <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wednesday 04 February 2009, fcassia wrote: >> 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. > > No, time _and_ date. > >> 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... > > This is the same we already doing with the time offset. The only > problem for you is that you had to re-calculate the offset again > once you start the VM. And no, you really don't want a clock which > returns the same time at any time. The guest would most probably > complain.
How about the same date? ie, on 23:59 the clock turns back to 00:00 of the same date. :-) FC -- Dream of the Daily Mail It is the Holy Grail And then the BBC Your life would be complete -Manic Street Preachers, "Royal Correspondent" _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
