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<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>
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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>
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On 12/10/2013 9:03 AM, Anders Hellquist wrote:<br>
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<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>
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<p>Regards, Anders<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 10, 2013 2:54 AM, "Blaster" <<a
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On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Bob Doolittle <<a
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target="_blank">bob@doolittle.us.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> 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>
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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
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.<br>
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