set fixed time at vm guest startup?

[Deepti S]

Can the admin please remove me from the mailing list?

Regards,
Deepti

On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 12:24 AM Fred Clift <fred at clift.org> wrote:

> I'm looking at the <clock> libvirt parameters.
>
> Is there a way to set the guests clock to a specific time/date at  virt
> startup?  I'm trying to virtualize a system with pci passthrough for a
> hardware device that wants to always live in pre-2011.  The license manager
> for the software/hardware has 31-bit overflow of time calculations.
>
> The current process on the physical machine is to power it on, use the
> bios to set the hardware date to Jan 1 2010, boot the system, use an RC
> script to ntp-set the date now that the hardware is up and running, and
> then everything works till next boot.  We even have a nice rc script that
> will set the clock back to 2010 if you do a clean shutdown/reboot.
>
> I see I can set my clock sync to variable and specify a negative offset -
> is there a way to just say "always be jan 10 2010 when you power on"?
>
> Fred
>
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