My ESXi doesn't start any VMs upon reboot/crash.
Is this the default desired behaviour for ESXi?
~ # grep auto /vmfs/volumes/datastore1/zork/zork.vmx
autostart = "poweron"
~ # grep -i AutoStart -A5 /var/log/messages
Jan 25 20:02:18 Hostd: 2008-01-25 20:02:18.500 'Hostsvc::AutoStartManager' 16384 info VM autostart configuration: /etc/vmware/hostd/vmAutoStart.xml
Jan 25 20:02:18 Hostd: 2008-01-25 20:02:18.631 'ServiceSystem' 16384 warning Could not establish init directory for service vmware-vpxa
Jan 25 20:02:18 sfcb[1376]: --- sfcbd V1.2.5 started - 1375
Jan 25 20:02:18 sfcb[1376]: --- Using /etc/sfcb/sfcb.cfg
Jan 25 20:02:18 sfcb[1376]: --- Max provider procs: 32
Jan 25 20:02:18 sfcb[1376]: --- initSocketPairs: 64
vmAutoStart.xml in attachment
That wouldn't be a problem at all unless i knew how to start a machine by hand. But i don't. I'm assuming it has something to do with
/bin/vmx
~ # uname -a
VMkernel 3.5.0 #1 SMP Release build-103909
Thank you.