This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------020806020106020502020403 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed 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" <blaster@556nato.com <mailto:blaster@556nato.com>> wrote:
On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Bob Doolittle <bob@doolittle.us.com <mailto:bob@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 its 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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--------------020806020106020502020403 Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">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.<br> <br> 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.<br> <br> <br> On 12/10/2013 9:03 AM, Anders Hellquist wrote:<br> </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CAEs_EOJV-XKBEZpkZzuGSH9EEHa7TLD=wEjfQYp70g=pUBKT3g@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"> <p dir="ltr">Just wanted to share my view.</p> <p dir="ltr">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.</p> <p dir="ltr"><br> </p> <p>Regards, Anders<br> </p> <div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 10, 2013 2:54 AM, "Blaster" <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:blaster@556nato.com" target="_blank">blaster@556nato.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <br> On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Bob Doolittle <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:bob@doolittle.us.com" target="_blank">bob@doolittle.us.com</a>> wrote:<br> <br> > 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.<br> <br> On ESXi<br> 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 its plenty of time to get the console up (if you need to) and get press F? to get where you want to be.<br> <br> <br> <br> _______________________________________________<br> Users mailing list<br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Users@ovirt.org" target="_blank">Users@ovirt.org</a><br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users" target="_blank">http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users</a><br> </blockquote> </div> </div> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html> --------------020806020106020502020403--