[TOOL]VMGuide 3.0 - Enable/Disable Time sync, ACPI and more.

[BetaNewbie]

VMGuide is a handy utility to manage your virtual machines, provides an easy access to hardware configuration and BIOS settings that are commonly hidden in the UI.
Useful when installing pre-release or vintage software.

This is an upgrade to the VMGuide/VMHelper 1.x released here years ago.

Completely rewritten in C#/WPF with a Modern GUI.
Search all your VMs automatically, so you don't have to dig through your hard drive for your configuration file.
Command line CUI with scripting support. (uses a syntax similar to Diskpart)
VMGuide.Core.dll common library and "vm-settings://" URL protocol for integrating VMGuide to your project.

Supported Virtualizer

• VMware Workstation/Player
• Microsoft Virtual PC 2004/2007
• Windows Virtual PC (for Windows 7)
• Virtualbox

Features

• Adjust the BIOS date of your virtual machine and disable time sync.
• Turn off ACPI support, handy when installing OSes that have issuses with ACPI.
• Specify the hardware your VM virtualizes, like Sound Card and Network Adapter (VMware only)

Runs on .Net Framework 4.0.

Open-source in GitHub, currently in beta.
Download: https://github.com/driver1998/VMGuide/releases

[AlphaBeta]

Looks interesting, gonna take a deeper look later.

"vm-settings://" URL protocol for integrating VMGuide to your project

How does this work?

[BetaNewbie]

Looks interesting, gonna take a deeper look later.

"vm-settings://" URL protocol for integrating VMGuide to your project

How does this work?

run Register.bat to register this protocol to your user (just open it with notepad if you care about what it actually does),
then you can do something like this:

Windows Longhorn Build 4074
KEY: TCP8W-T8PQJ-WWRRH-QH76C-99FBW
BIOSDate: 4/26/2004 [url]vm-settings://biosdate/20040426[/url]

Windows 2000 Build 1946
BIOSDate: 12/14/1998 [url]vm-settings://biosdate/19981214[/url]
ACPI is required to be off. [url]vm-settings://acpi/false[/url]

I've integrate this into my own version of Windows Beta Information Library (currently for my personal use only).

When you click that link, VMGuide will show up and be ready to import that setting.
And just select the VM you want to apply that setting, VMGuide will do the rest for you.