Boot Options

You can control a virtual machine’s boot behavior by setting the

VirtualMachineConfigSpec.bootOptions

property. The

VirtualMachineBootOptions

data object in that property allows you to specify the following properties:

bootDelay

– Delay before starting the boot sequence, in milliseconds.

bootRetryDelay

– Delay before a boot retry, in milliseconds. This property is only considered if the

bootRetryEnabled

property is set to

true

bootRetryEnabled

– If set to

true

, a virtual machine that fails to boot tries again after the

bootRetryDelay

time period has elapsed.

enterBIOSSetup

– If set to

true

, the virtual machine enters BIOS setup the next time it boots. The virtual machine resets this flag to

false

so subsequent boots proceed normally.

VMware vSphere SDKs and Tools 6.5