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always start tonight

VMX-file parameters

 

manually set the start-time of a VM

 

config.version = "7"
virtualHW.version = "3"
displayName = "I_will_always_start_9th_July_at_19:46_2004_Berlin-Time"
guestOS = "winXPPro"
scsi0.present = "TRUE"
memsize = "256"
ide0:0.present = "FALSE"
ide0:0.fileName = "my.vmdk"
ide1:0.present = "FALSE"
ide1:0.fileName = "my.iso"
ide1:0.deviceType = "cdrom-image"
floppy0.fileType = "file"
floppy0.fileName = "my.flp"
floppy0.startConnected = "FALSE"
Ethernet0.present = "TRUE"
Ethernet0.addressType = "generated"
sound.present = "FALSE"
sound.virtualDev = "es1371"
sound.fileName = "-1"
usb.present = "FALSE"
priority.grabbed = "normal"
priority.ungrabbed = "normal"
isolation.tools.hgfs.disable = "TRUE"
isolation.tools.dnd.disable = "TRUE"
redoLogDir = "."
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

In case you want to have a virtual machine that always starts at the very same point in time - your birthday or what ever here is how to do it: Take the rtc.StartTime value and calculate the offset to the given date in seconds and adjust the StartTime.
The "time.synchronize" parameters make sure that this startTime will never change.
By the way - for a test simply copy the text in the box into a text-file and rename the file to always-start-tonight.vmx
This lttle machine does not need any further files.


time.synchronize.tools.startup = FALSE

since WS 6.0.1 you also need this entry !



(see download section for updated versions of this tool)

If you want to set your start time you may find this little tool helpful ...


Example: you want to test if your software will expire in 30 days ....

Simply take the value displayed in the left box.

Add 60 x 60 x 24 x 30 and use this value to start the VM


Got a lot of feature requests for the time-machine ...
When the work on the MOA2 project will allow it -
I will implement some of your suggestions

 

 



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