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Thanks for this. I see the nvram file but I can't read it. What else is stored in the nvram file? I would hate to copy it out to multiple machines and not know what was in there.<br />
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Is there any kind of setting that would make the first boot device PXE? <br />
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Thanks<br />
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Josh
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Josh,<br />
The nvram file stores all your bios settings. You can set PXE as the first boot device in the BIOS setup inside the VM. When you exit and save in the bios, the settings get saved to the nvram file.<br />
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Lars<br />

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Great...<br />
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THank You
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When we create a new Virtual Machine in ESX we'd like to set it so that the bios is set to PXE boot as the first device. Is there a way to make sure that this stays the default? Is there a command line option or an edit to the VMX file that can do this?<br />
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Thanks<br />
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Josh
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When we create a new Virtual Machine in ESX we'd like to set it so that the bios is set to PXE boot as the first device. Is there a way to make sure that this stays the default? Is there a command line option or an edit to the VMX file that can do this?

Thanks

Josh

VMWare ESX 3.5 - How to force all new guest VM's to PXE boot by default

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.