VMs not booting until I VNC in

[Darren David]

Hi all-

I'm playing with 11.2-RC2, and I'm noticing that any VMs that I have set to auto start do indeed show up as running in the UI after a reboot, but don't actually boot until I VNC into them. To wit: I might reboot my machine, and if I come back a few days later to VNC in to a VM for the first time post-reboot, I see that VM begin its cold boot sequence. Is this expected behavior, or should the VMs boot all the way up unattended?

Darren

 

[droeders]

This has been asked and answered quite a few times on this forum:

https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/ubuntu-vm-will-not-boot-until-vnc-connection.56206/
https://forums.freenas.org/index.php?threads/vm-doesnt-boot-till-i-vnc-to-it.57289/
https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...vm-otherwise-will-not-start-on-its-own.59806/

 

[Darren David]

Sure enough. RTFM. Didn't show up in my search. Thank you!