Hi! On Tue, 2020-04-14 at 11:58:57 +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote: > IMHO virtualbox-guest-utils portion that does settimeofday() to host's > time should be split into a separate subpackage, and make that one > provide/conflicts/replaces time-daemon.
I don't think this is possible. The part that does that is VBoxService which is a multi-service daemon that takes care of many other things. > This way, people can use virtualbox-guest-utils always, and choose if > they want timesyncd / ntp / etc or virtualbox-guest-utils-time-daemon > to provide the time. The timesync support in VBoxService can always be disabled by passing --disable-timesync on when starting it, or from the host either permanently or at run-time time with VBoxManage. So neither the presence of the file on the file system nor of the process running means its is handling time sync. Thanks, Guillem
