Comments on: VirtualBox: Disable time sync between host and client

By: Uélison Jean

Uélison Jean — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:52:27 +0000

Well I found one solution to do this.
Go to
C:\Documents and Settings\\.VirtualBox\Machines\
and edit the xml file.
–>Create a backup of this file<–
Delete this line:

Note: the script vboxmanage setextradata “VBoxInternal/Devices/VMMDev/0/Config/GetHostTimeDisabled” “1″ will create one line in this xml, so if you run more then once time you’ll see more lines. Delete these also.

By: ricog

ricog — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:39:37 +0000

Wayne, I haven’t confirmed, but I think if you set the 1 to a 0 (zero) on that command it will disable it.

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 00:01:45 +0000

Can someone tell me how to turn on the time sync feature… I turned it off successfully with this command

vboxmanage setextradata “VBoxInternal/Devices/VMMDev/0/Config/GetHostTimeDisabled” “1″

… now I’d like to turn it back on.

Thanks

By: cboese

cboese — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:28:04 +0000

I had to edit the entry in the machines xml file manually, because the command line approach seems to lead to special character corruption. Also do not copy/paste the line above, as most browsers will give you the wrong quotation marks and most shells are very strict.

By: VBox User

VBox User — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:13:24 +0000

Hi,
on Debian the Command is: VBoxManage

I also had to Reboot the Windows Guest, after that the Timesync was disabled.

Thanks

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By: Chaminda

Chaminda — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:51:46 +0000

Thanks was very helpful

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By: Maarten Ureel

Maarten Ureel — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 15:06:16 +0000

Really helpful, thanks!

By: ricog

ricog — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:19:36 +0000

Tadanori: Not sure about a Windows host, but I’m on 3.0.8 r53138 in Ubuntu with WinXP as the guest. I haven’t had any problems with the setting, and my QuickBooks is still running without any time sync messages. It’s running Guest Additions.