Cannot disable time synchronization

[sciaw]

Hi all,

I'm very new to VMware player, so sorry if this topic has jet been treated / my questions are obvious.

I'm running Windows 7 Pro as a guest in VMWare Player 3.1.0, host system is Windows XP. The Windows 7 Pro guest as been created directly from VMware

Player(Create a New Virtual Machine...). Everything is ok and the

virtual OS successfully created from ISO DVD. I want to disable time synchronization in guest machine, but I cannot: opening the virtual machine (in suspension state), the guest clock is re-synchronized after some minutes.

Here a list of the steps / attempts to solve the problem (without success):

• I've installed VMware tools, disabling time synchronization from "options" menu.

• I've added the following options to .vmx file, as described in this article http://www.vmware.com/support/ws45/doc/new_guest_toolsconfig_ws.html :

tools.syncTime = "FALSE"

tools.synchronize.restore = "FALSE"

time.synchronize.resume.disk = "FALSE"

time.synchronize.continue = "FALSE"

time.synchronize.shrink = "FALSE"

• The "Internet time" syncronization in within / is disabled.

• Guest Network adapter is disabled

Thanks in advance for the help.

[continuum · Accepted solution]

That article is old - see more up to date info http://sanbarrow.com/vmx/vmx-always-start-tonight.html

you need two more parameters since a few versions - you have 5 - you need all 7

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" 
time.synchronize.tools.startup = "FALSE" 

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[sciaw]

It works! thanks a lot.

I tried also the rtc.startTime = "xxxxxxxxx"setting, explained in the posted link. Strangely it seems working reliable only on a shut down -> power on guest cycle, not on guest reboot. In reboot case sometimes it gets "unpredictable" clock setting ... anyhow this is another story, really I don't need this feature ...

thanks again continuum