ianneubert.com

«
»

Disabling Time Synchronization in VMware Fusion

I’ve been trying to figure out how to disable time/clock synchronization in a VMware Fusion guest for the past few months, and I finally stumbled upon the answer! This will prevent the VMware Fusion guest from getting the correct time from the host OS on boot or restore.

The following lines need to be added to the .vmx file inside the virtual machine package:

tools.syncTime = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.continue = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.restore = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.resume.disk = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.shrink = "FALSE"
time.synchronize.tools.startup = "FALSE"

VMware KB #1189

Tags:

This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 17th, 2008 at 3:13 pm and is filed under Computers. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

  • dwarfy

    Hey thank you for this more than useful information to me :)

    Cheers

  • Tom

    All I needed was to set tools.syncTime to “FALSE” (it was “TRUE” by default). Thank you very much!

  • hamderdoygaard

    Hey, Thanks !

    This has been very useful information to me…