Hello, I have a Ubuntu 10.04 server running on a VM on Windows XP, and would like to sync the VM's date/time with the XP one. How can I do this?
I tried with the date -s command in the console, but after some time the date/time on the VM is running too far ahead.
When you installed the system, you were able to tell it to sync to the hardware clock, which in the case of a virtual machine, would be the host clock. You can still do that via the System->Preferences menu.
In fact the VM was a pre-built one, I just extracted it and opened with VMWare Workstation 8. It is a server version, so I don't think it has the System -> Preferences displayed as such. I did try set the date and time again using dpkg-reconfigure tzdata, as well as date -s command, but it still after some time start running ahead of the physical host time.
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