Where are the VM Startup/Shutdown Delay config files?

[AdamJ]

I have previously set a boot order & delay for some of my VMs & containers & since removed the settings from the GUI - but some of them still seem to have the settings on even though they are removed in the gui.

Where are the settings actually changed - can someone give me the path to the config file, so that I can manually check - I have looked at the VM & container config files for each one effected but can't see anything there.

 

[shanreich]

You should find a line in the respective VM config (/etc/pve/qemu-server/<VMID>.conf):

startup: up=10

This introduces a delay of 10 seconds

 

[leesteken]

Note that all VMs/CTs with startup order=1 are started before those with order=2, etc., and those without order last. This might feel like a delay. Proxmox also starts a fixed number of VM at the same time (within the same order), which depends on the Maximal Works/bulk-action setting the the Datacenter Options.