I was looking for a way to force my VM to boot up with a specific date and time without going into the VM BIOS to change it every time I boot up.
I just need a VM for testing and evaluating certain software or platforms but I don’t like re-building it when the licenses expires.
Especially when trial software always expires in like 15 or 30 days ? 7 for a particular secure os and 15 for a particular secure platform. 🙂
Here’s what I found @ http://sanbarrow.com/.
I will need to add the following lines to my xxx.vmx, so everytime the VM boots up, it resets it’s date and time to my liking.
rtc.startTime = 1089395200
tools.syncTime = false
time.synchronize.continue = false
time.synchronize.restore = false
time.synchronize.resume.disk = false
time.synchronize.resume.memory = false
time.synchronize.shrink = false
Figuring the value for rtc clock ? A small application is available for download at the same site to calculate that value from dd/mm/yyyy hh:mm:ss.