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open-vm-tools package

  1. Bug #2039206
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 2039206

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Pengpeng Sun (pengpengs) wrote :

Thanks for the checking.

We have an optional property in Linux customization specification, when doing Linux VM customization, customer can choose True or False for the "hwClockUTC", see it in the API document: https://vdc-download.vmware.com/vmwb-repository/dcr-public/184bb3ba-6fa8-4574-a767-d0c96e2a38f4/ba9422ef-405c-47dd-8553-e11b619185b2/SDK/vsphere-ws/docs/ReferenceGuide/vim.vm.customization.LinuxPrep.html
It's to
"
Specifies whether the hardware clock is in UTC or local time.
True when the hardware clock is in UTC.
False when the hardware clock is in local time.
"

For "VMware guest customization", we have own customization engine or cloud-init to do the real setting in a Linux VM. In this case, only our own customization engine supports customizing hardware clock, cloud-init does NOT.