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BjornSH
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Delay between boot of virtual machine in folder.

I used teams a lot in workstation 7, but in workstation 8 they have been replaced by folders.

One of the great thing about teams was the ability to control the delay between boot of different VM's.

In workstation 8 I can only find a general option under edit preferences. I gues the only way to get around it is to script the boot order or is there an option that I missed?

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RDPetruska
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According to a discussion last week from one of the VMware developers, yes - scripting is the best answer.  He stated that the old method of delaying the startup wasn't exactly accurate anyway, and recommended scripting.

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RDPetruska
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According to a discussion last week from one of the VMware developers, yes - scripting is the best answer.  He stated that the old method of delaying the startup wasn't exactly accurate anyway, and recommended scripting.

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you can set a boot-delay for each specific VM by editing xml-files - but how this works exactly has still to be discovered


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BjornSH
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You got me searching in the right direction, the setting in the vmx file is:

bios.bootDelay = "<milliseconds>"

so bios.bootDelay = "120000"  waits for two minutes

That solves my problem thanks.

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