On 12/10/2013 03:54 AM, Blaster 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. I set
all mine to 10,000ms. Delays guest startup by 10 seconds each time you boot, but it’s
plenty of time to get the console up (if you need to) and get press F? to get where you
want to be.
btw, what happens if you boot from [disk, pxe] - if the disk doesn't
have anything on it, its supposed to pass to 2nd boot device, then on
restart it will be ok?