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


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