cmdlet for managing bios settings?

[rfoust]

Hi,

I didn't see it at first glance, but would it be possible to have cmdlets to get/set bios settings for a VM? Seems like programmatically it shouldn't be very difficult and would be extremely useful.

Thanks,

- Robbie

[halr9000]

I looked around for a little bit and have not yet seen an example of this being done anywhere. I don't think it's covered in (any of) their APIs either, but I could be wrong. One thing I wrote talked about manually setting one VM as you want it, then copying the .nvram file to the destination VMs while they are powered off.

[rfoust]

Copying the .nvram file is the way I'm doing it right now, but unfortunately our process for creating Windows VMs has been less than consistent, so I don't know which ones have the right configuration and which ones don't. More specifically, what I'm really interested in finding out is the boot device ordering. I set all of my VMs up to PXE boot first, followed by Floppy, CD, and HDD. (we always pxe boot first to take advantage of our automation software..Altiris Deployment Solution).

I think vmware might license their bios technology from somebody else, so the code might be closed off from external management like this. Not really sure though...

[halr9000]

I'm very familiar with Altiris's deployment solution as the version that HP OEM'd and called HP Remote Deployment Pack (RDP).

I think you'd be better off taking this question to the wider VMTN, maybe the VI\VM group.

[bshell]

I would just make a master file can copy that one always... make it read-only and move it out of the VM folder. Almost like an ISO file. You can copy that as part of the deployement of new VMs