From Blaster at 556nato.com Tue Dec 10 11:57:30 2013 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============6289633776629079008==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Blaster To: users at ovirt.org Subject: Re: [Users] Agents for Windows Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2013 10:57:07 -0600 Message-ID: <52A747E3.7030103@556nato.com> In-Reply-To: CAEs_EOJV-XKBEZpkZzuGSH9EEHa7TLD=wEjfQYp70g=pUBKT3g@mail.gmail.com --===============6289633776629079008== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020806020106020502020403 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=3Dwindows-1252; format=3Dflowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This setting is a PER GUEST setting, not system wide. On guests you = reboot frequently, don't set anything. On guests you need to change = boot options frequently, change it to what you want. We have about 6000 guests on ESXi, have not had any issues working this = way. On production VMs that get built once and never touched for years, = don't change anything. On dev VMs that get rebuilt frequently, we add a = delay. On 12/10/2013 9:03 AM, Anders Hellquist wrote: > > Just wanted to share my view. > > Have been working with vmware vsphere for a number of years and when = > dealing with a few hundreds of vm's, setting a boot delay on each is = > not a good way to handle this issue IMHO. Besides, this setting = > affects all sysadminsand might not be what everyone wishes. I think = > the runonce function is great and do not want that removed. > > > Regards, Anders > > On Dec 10, 2013 2:54 AM, "Blaster" > wrote: > > > On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Bob Doolittle > wrote: > > > I'll disagree a tiny bit here. One *really annoying* quality of > needing to use F2/F8/F12 during Windows bootup in a VM (including > ESX/vSphere) is that sometimes it can be impossible to be quick > enough on the keyboard to get attention before the OS bootup has > begun. By the time you can get a console focus it's too late. That > can be enormously frustrating, and Run Once does help with that. > > On ESXi > Guest menu -> edit settings -> Options -> boot options -> boot > delay. I set all mine to 10,000ms. Delays guest startup by 10 > seconds each time you boot, but it=C2=92s plenty of time to get the > console up (if you need to) and get press F? to get where you want > to be. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Users mailing list > Users(a)ovirt.org > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users > --------------020806020106020502020403 Content-Type: text/html; charset=3Dwindows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
This setting is a PER GUEST setting, not system wide.=C2=A0 On guests you reboot frequently, don't set anything.=C2=A0 On guests you need to change boot options frequently, change it to what you want.

We have about 6000 guests on ESXi, have not had any issues working this way.=C2=A0 On production VMs that get built once and never touch= ed for years, don't change anything.=C2=A0 On dev VMs that get rebuilt frequently, we add a delay.


On 12/10/2013 9:03 AM, Anders Hellquist wrote:

Just wanted to share my view.

Have been working with vmware vsphere for a number of years and when dealing with a few hundreds of vm's, setting a boot delay on each is not a good way to handle this issue IMHO. Besides, this setting affects all sysadminsand might not be what everyone wishes. I think the runonce function is great and do not want that removed.


Regards, Anders

On Dec 10, 2013 2:54 AM, "Blaster" <blaster(a)556nato.com> wrote:

On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Bob Doolittle <bob(a)doolittle.us.com> wrote:

> I'll disagree a tiny bit here. One *really annoying* quality of needing to use F2/F8/F12 during Windows bootup in a VM (including ESX/vSphere) is that sometimes it can be impossible to be quick enough on the keyboard to get attention before the OS bootup has begun. By the time you can get a console focus it's too late. That can be enormously frustrating, and Run Once does help with that.

On ESXi
Guest menu -> edit settings -> Options -> boot options -> boot delay. =C2=A0I set all mine to 10,000ms. =C2=A0Delays guest startup by 10 seconds each time you boot, but it=C2=92s plenty of time to get the console up (if you need to) and get press F? to get where you want to be.



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