[clue-tech] Using Xen to run a VM with a different date?

[Charles W Downing]

Red Mop wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 March 2009 09:08:05 pm Jed S. Baer wrote:
>   
>> Hi Folks.
>>
>> Turns out I might need to occasionally run some software with the system
>> date tweaked. Unfortunately, doing a web search for something like
>> "running xen different date" turns up a whole lot of date-stamped
>> articles, etc., that don't talk about how the system date in a VM
>> interacts with the host system date.
>>
>> So, before I dive into downloading Xen, and setting up a domU, I'd like
>> to know whether there's any hope for telling the OS that it's 2003.
>>
>> Anyone have any knowledge on this?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> jed
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> VirtualBox or VMWare without the guest editions and no ntp, perhaps?
>   
Indeed.  With VirtualBox, one can select a "save machine state" as an 
exit option.  When the OS is started next, it has the saved date and 
time as its starting point.  Unfortunately for me, at startup my guest 
OS resets the time and date on my AIO printer, which I have to fix by hand.

I presume one could set the guest OS's time and date to any reasonable 
choice and do one's thing forever.
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Chuck Downing
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