KVM OVA bugs: Timezone

[hajek2]

Fixing the Timezone after deploying KVM OVA release 8.1

During post-deploy setup shell script asks for timezone - I’m using Europe (option 8), Czech Republic (option 10) but it isn’t working, on the 1st summary it is OK but later it creates symlink to Asia/Kolkata.

Ways how to fix it:

• CM: in SMI
• SMGR: CLI command configureTimeZone
• WebLM: command configureTimeZone is not working, still generating Kolkata

general (linux style) workaround with root:

# show me actual setting:
ls -la /etc/localtime
# delete wrong symlink:
rm /etc/localtime
# new correct symlinku:
ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Prague /etc/localtime
# confirm changes:
ls -la /etc/localtime

[mlombardi1]

Interesting that all KVM OVAs are affected by this. Thanks for the info.