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Feature #4533

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Boot options configuration for VMware guests

Added by Bryce Camp about 10 years ago. Updated about 7 years ago.

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New
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
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Category:
Compute resources - VMware
Target version:
-
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Description

The ability to change the "Options" for a vmware guest would be very important. For example, the configuration of hot-plug and boot options are commonly used in enterprises.

Related issues 2 (0 open — 2 closed)

Related to Foreman - Feature #1946: Addition VMWare options required for VM creationResolved11/15/2012Actions
Related to Boot disk - Feature #19013: It would be useful if Boot Retry was enabled or configurableClosedTimo Goebel03/23/2017Actions
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 #1

Updated by Dominic Cleal about 10 years ago

  • Category set to Compute resources
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 #2

Updated by Angelo Lisco about 10 years ago

Maybe we can mark this as a child of http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/1946

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Updated by Dominic Cleal about 10 years ago

  • Related to Feature #1946: Addition VMWare options required for VM creation added
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 #4

Updated by Dominic Cleal over 9 years ago

  • Category changed from Compute resources to Compute resources - VMware
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Updated by Mathieu Parent over 8 years ago

Mem and CPU hotplug has a separate ticket : http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/8295

This one should be retitled to focus on "boot options".

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 #6

Updated by Dominic Cleal over 8 years ago

  • Subject changed from Vmware guest Options to Boot options configuration for VMware guests
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 #7

Updated by Mathieu Parent over 8 years ago

A powershell snipset to limit boot modes :

$VM = YourVMName
$spec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec
$spec.extraConfig += New-Object VMware.Vim.OptionValue
$spec.extraConfig[0].key = "bios.bootDeviceClasses" 
$spec.extraConfig[0].value = "allow:net,hd,cd"

Note that option sets only list of allowed device classes, not their
order - so 'allow:net,cd' and 'allow:cd,net' are equivalent.

Ref : http://download3.vmware.com/sample_code/Perl/VMBootOrder.html

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 #8

Updated by Greg Koch about 7 years ago

  • Related to Feature #19013: It would be useful if Boot Retry was enabled or configurable added
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