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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

How to Disable Time Sync between VirtualBox Host and Guest [Random]

VirtualBox Guest OSs gets the computer system date from the Host. Should you ever want the Guest to have a different system time than the Host, the following works for me on an Windows XP Guest hosted by a Windows 7 machine. Inside the Guest:

Run services.msc in the command prompt (or open the systems dialog box via Control Panel)
Find the VirtualBox Guest Additions Service

Stop the service (and set its Startup type to manual)

Other VirtualBox Guest Additions Services such as shared folders and mouse integration continue to work. However, because the Guest VM gets the time from the Host whenever the Guest is rebooted, you will still have to reset the clock each time you reboot.

The information was found here: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?t=8535 -- provided by user ubshreenath.

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