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    Opening the BIOS in a vmguest

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      ashinobi
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      Hi, Everyone.

      Is it still possible when I boot a vmguest interrupt it and get into the BIOS? If I try to boot the vmguest I only see a white background and the next screen is the selection on which kernel I want to load. Is there a setting in xen orchestra or xcp-ng that will allow me perform the interrupt to get into the BIOS?

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        olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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        Hi,

        There's no "BIOS" menu (except in UEFI). What do you want to achieve?

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          ashinobi @olivierlambert
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          @olivierlambert

          Thanks for reply, this is more of a question. Because I know in vmware workstation this was an option, I was thinking it maybe an option as well in XCP-NG that I may have overlooked.

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            gsrfan01 @ashinobi
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            @ashinobi The only time I've needed to get into the UEFI was to set a specific resolution. If you're using UEFI it's ESC to get into it.

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              ashinobi @gsrfan01
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              @gsrfan01

              Thanks for sharing that info I will configure my vmguest in the future to use UEFI instead of BIOS.

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              • olivierlambertO Online
                olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                Sure, but for what reason exactly? Just for the sake of curiosity? (that's a fine answer!)

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                  ashinobi @olivierlambert
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                  @olivierlambert

                  I have a lab at home and I am trying to prepare in a comptia linux+. There was a tutorial where they discuss timedatectl. I notice that my RTC time is different. I was wondering is this because my BIOS time maybe not set right.

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                  • olivierlambertO Online
                    olivierlambert Vates 🪐 Co-Founder CEO
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                    There's no time emulation in the BIOS. Xen is a type 1 hypervisor. Time is handled by Xen directly.

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                      ashinobi @olivierlambert
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                      @olivierlambert

                      Thank you for sharing that information, that is an additional knowledge for me.

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