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Sometimes when I resume a virtual machine, the date and time continues from where it was when I paused the VM.

This causes some issues with cookies, tokens, and other things.

Is there any way I can force the VM to look at the date and time of the host machine and synchronize?

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  • What is the guest OS? Different virtualized OSes may behave differently. As well, what virtualization software are you using?
    – bjb
    Commented Apr 29, 2019 at 17:10
  • It's a Windows 10 guest on a Windows 10 host. The vm software is VMWare 14 Workstation (see tags)
    – CodyBugstein
    Commented Apr 29, 2019 at 17:10
  • If you have VMware Tools installed in the guest, this should happen automatically after resuming the VM.
    – jamesdlin
    Commented May 2, 2019 at 15:25
  • @jamesdlin It doesn't though. That's what's odd
    – CodyBugstein
    Commented May 2, 2019 at 15:27
  • Verify that the "Synchronize guest time with host" is checked under the VM's Settings-->Options-->VMware Tools
    – essjae
    Commented May 2, 2019 at 21:44

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The problem was occurring when I paused my VM while a debugging process in Visual Studio was running. It seems the running process blocks and synchronization of the time.

To solve this I stopped the process and paused the machine. Then when I resume, the time is correct.

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