hello all,
i actually am new to using VirtualBox, so am not aware with much of its functionalities.

my problem here is that when i take a snapshot at say 10am , and then restore that snapshot an hour later at 11am and then start the VM then the time in the host system is 11am but the VM shows the time as 10am and continues from there itself.. i tried waiting for some time to see if it would sync the time automatically, but it didnt.

so is there any command using which i can sync the time between the VM and host system?

i have searched and found that VM GuestAdditions helps to sync the time instantly within 10 sec or so.. but i dont want to use it because i have heard that many problems have occured after installing the GuestAdditions..

so without GuestAdditions is there any command to sync the time?

thankyou to all in advance

Well I don't know about VBox. but can try setting manualy.

I've never encountered any problems after installing Guest Additions on any distro I've tried in VirtualBox. What problems, and where have you "heard" about them?

Same here. In fact many things are very difficult to do without them. Think of the guest additions like the hardware drivers on a real system. You might be able to skirt by with the kernel's built-in ones, but things will work much better with the real drivers.

Anyway, you should be able to use ntp for this. I believe it has a special flag you need to set when the time change will be bigger than a few seconds though, which is probably why it's not happening automatically.