{"id":135,"date":"2010-04-28T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T09:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/esx\/auto-start-guest\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T16:09:08","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T15:09:08","slug":"auto-start-guest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/2010\/04\/28\/auto-start-guest\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto start Guest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"last-modified\">This post was most recently updated on December 11th, 2018<\/p><p>This one had me tearing my hair out. We needed to enable auto startup on some of our Virtual Machines on the VMware ESX server, but I couldn\u2019t for the life of me work out how. After a stupid amount of Googling around, turning up nothing, I actually <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vmware.com\/pdf\/vi3_35\/esx_3\/r35\/vi3_35_25_admin_guide.pdf\"><acronym title=\"Read The Fracking Manual\"><u><font color=\"#0000ff\">RTFM<\/font><\/u><\/acronym><\/a>! Page 177-178 had the answers.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s how to do it:<\/p>\n<p>Launch the Virtual Infrastructure Client. If you don\u2019t have it, just http:\/\/ to your VMware ESX host and grab it from the front page.<\/p>\n<p>Go to the Configuration tab of your ESX Server, then click on Virtual Machine Startup\/Shutdown.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/images\/esx\/2008-07-17_112136.png\"><img class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-315\" title=\"VMware ESX Configuration > VM Start up \/ Shutdown&#8221; height=&#8221;259&#8243; alt=&#8221;&#8221; width=&#8221;500&#8243; src=&#8221;\/media\/images\/esx\/2008-07-17_112136.png&#8221; \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By default (I\u2019m pretty sure) automatic startup is disabled. To enable it, click on \u201cProperties\u2026\u201d on the far upper right of the window.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll now see this window:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/images\/esx\/2008-07-17_112338.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-316\" title=\"VM Automatic Startup\/Shutdown Properties\" height=\"323\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" src=\"\/media\/images\/esx\/2008-07-17_112338.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check\/Tick \u201cAllow virtual machines to start and stop automatically with the system\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Now, this is the bit where I nearly cried\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/images\/esx\/2008-07-17_112839.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-319\" title=\"VM auto start - default\" height=\"174\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" src=\"\/media\/images\/esx\/2008-07-17_112839.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You know you want to \u201cenable\u201d your Guest OSes to automatically boot, but how? I tried clicking and dragging, right clicking for a context menu to enable \u201cAutomatic start up\u201d and gave up.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, you need to click on the Guest OS you\u2019d like to enable, and then click \u201cMove Up\u201d until it sits underneath the \u201cAutomatic startup\u201d title. Argh!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/media\/images\/esx\/2008-07-17_112852.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-318\" title=\"VM auto start - moved up\" height=\"174\" alt=\"\" width=\"499\" src=\"\/media\/images\/esx\/2008-07-17_112852.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really hope this helps someone out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was most recently updated on December 11th, 2018This one had me tearing my hair out. We needed to enable auto startup on some of our Virtual Machines on the VMware ESX server, but I couldn\u2019t for the life of me work out how. After a stupid amount of Googling around, turning up nothing, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bleuanus.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}