How to change & set Data and time on Citrix Xen VM

Setting time on a Virtual Machine is always a painful tasks. Different virtualization platform have different techniques of setting time like in Virtuozzo you can change the Timezone of the VM but you can’t set time as it synchronize the time from the host server.

On a Citrix Xen VM also the clocks synchronized to the time running on the host server, and cannot be independently changed. So, when you try to set time (using date -s command) on a Xen VM it will show that the command is executed but it won’t change the time. You can see that in following

To change the time on a VM you need to enable independent clock settings of the VM which is disabled by default which you can see using following command.

Output of the above command is “0” which shows that independent clock settings for the VM is disabled. Now use following command to enable it

and verify if its enabled or not

Now try to set the date and time using date –set or date -s command.