Enable VMware tools timesync

November 7th, 2008 | 3 Comments |

Today I visited a customer that wanted to enable the VMware tools timesync during an automated install of a Windows VM. The customer didn’t want to use powershell / perl or anyother SDK enabled tool. So what’s left?

“C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Tools\VMwareService.exe” –cmd “vmx.set_option synctime 0 1″

So this command ticks the checkbox for timesync via VMware Tools, which can come in handy when doing RIS alike installs.




Posted in Management & Automation, Server | Tags: ESX, esxi, Howto, Scripting, Tools, VirtualCenter
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3 Responses to “Enable VMware tools timesync”

  1. cornerStone says:
    Friday, November 7, 2008 at 18:32

    Question is why this isn’t enabled by default during the installation of vmware tools?

  2. Hugo Strydom says:
    Friday, November 7, 2008 at 22:12

    Hi
    Another way is to enable it on the Option -> VMware Tools tab inside the VM settings.

  3. Hypervisor.fr » Blog Archive » Liens du jour #2 says:
    Monday, February 16, 2009 at 22:57

    [...] Activer la syncro de temps dans les vmtools en script [...]

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