diff --git a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/configs/minikube_defconfig b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/configs/minikube_defconfig
index c70b9fec76de..ab24b3652a3c 100644
--- a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/configs/minikube_defconfig
+++ b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/configs/minikube_defconfig
@@ -59,3 +59,4 @@ BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_ISO9660=y
 BR2_TARGET_ROOTFS_ISO9660_BOOT_MENU="$(BR2_EXTERNAL_MINIKUBE_PATH)/board/coreos/minikube/isolinux.cfg"
 BR2_TARGET_SYSLINUX=y
 BR2_PACKAGE_HOST_E2TOOLS=y
+BR2_PACKAGE_SYSTEMD_TIMESYNCD=n
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/vbox-guest/vboxservice.service b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/vbox-guest/vboxservice.service
index 01a07184bcd6..5f05bd3d20d1 100644
--- a/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/vbox-guest/vboxservice.service
+++ b/deploy/iso/minikube-iso/package/vbox-guest/vboxservice.service
@@ -4,9 +4,14 @@ ConditionVirtualization=oracle
 
 [Service]
 ExecStartPre=-/usr/sbin/modprobe vboxguest
-ExecStartPre=-/usr/sbin/modprobe vboxvideo
+
+# Broken and probably unused: Unknown symbol ttm_bo_del_sub_from_lru
+# ExecStartPre=-/usr/sbin/modprobe vboxvideo
+
 ExecStartPre=-/usr/sbin/modprobe vboxsf
-ExecStart=/usr/sbin/VBoxService -f --disable-automount
+# Normally, VirtualBox only syncs every 20 minutes. This syncs on start, and
+# forces an immediate sync if VM time is over 5 seconds off.
+ExecStart=/usr/sbin/VBoxService -f --disable-automount --timesync-set-start --timesync-set-threshold 5000
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target