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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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