Access BIOS settings (System Date) for VM in Hyper-V?

Thank you for answering.

Wow, I'm somewhat shocked this feature was neglected. I know now why my developers prefer buying VMWare instead of using Hyper-V. We often need to set the date on our application (12/31/xx, for example) to test what happens over a given time frame, especially as we develop point-of-sale applications which have time-based rules and we must test these in our VM's.

Okay, well I guess I'll buy VMWare and give another bit of money to EMC instead of using a MS product.

SMH

To anybody else who's seen this thread, here are some other relavant links.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8\_1-winapps/access-bios-settings-system-date-for-vm-in-hyper-v/62f4ea6b-7bdb-433b-83d3-3fd03fd4978a

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh848584%28v=wps.630%29.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Here's what I see in my powershell when I try to find a date function in the BIOS.

PS C:\Users\Kai> get-vm

Name              State CPUUsage(%) MemoryAssigned(M) Uptime   Status

----              ----- ----------- ----------------- ------   ------

LUbuntu           Off   0           0                 00:00:00 Operating normally

WindowsPhone_WVGA Off   0           0                 00:00:00 Operating normally

WindowsWhistler   Off   0           0                 00:00:00 Operating normally

PS C:\Users\Kai> get-vmbios WindowsWhistler

VMName          StartupOrder                            NumLockEnabled

------          ------------                            --------------

WindowsWhistler {CD, IDE, LegacyNetworkAdapter, Floppy} False

PS C:\Users\Kai> get-vmbios WindowsWhistler

VMName          StartupOrder                            NumLockEnabled

------          ------------                            --------------

WindowsWhistler {CD, IDE, LegacyNetworkAdapter, Floppy} False

PS C:\Users\Kai>

In short, no.  http://blogs.msdn.com/b/virtual_pc_guy/archive/2010/11/19/time-synchronization-in-hyper-v.aspx "whenever you start a virtual machine we take the time from the management operating system and put this into the real-time clock of the virtual machine"

Tero