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. 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.
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