Make time sync time function of the Guest Additions optional

[helehele]

I don't want the time of the guest OS auto-synced by the Guest Additions, but still wish to use other features of it.

Could this function be made OPTIONAL?

[Frank Mehnert]

This is possible but needs some manual setup. For Linux guests, edit the file /etc/init.d/vboxadd-service and search the line

daemon $binary > /dev/null

To disable the time synchronization, change that line to

daemon $binary --disable-timesync > /dev/null

Use

/usr/sbin/VBoxService --help

to find out other options.

The same for Windows guests: Open regedit and search for VBoxService.exe. Append --disable-timesync to the command line.