On Dec 9, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Bob Doolittle <b...@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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