On 8/21/08, Royce Souther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using vmplayer to test system installs and I have to switch between CD > and HDD booting quite often. The problem is the POST time is so fast that it > is a real pain trying to get the boot menu. It is less then 1 second POST > time that I see a flash of the message telling me to press ESC to enter > setup and by the time I see it, it is already to late. I have been searching > for days and cannot find any information about this. I looked in the BIOS > for a quick boot option to dissable or a RAM test feature to slow the POST > down but there is nothing. > > If anyone knows of a setting I can put in my VMX to slow down the POST that > would be great. If not then a setting to change the BOOT sequence would work > but I am hoping to find a way that does not require me to edit the VMX ever > time I reboot.
I don't have vmplayer installed (just vmware server,) so I can't check the man page myself, but you may wish to see if there is a command line option you can use to specify which device to boot from. I know you can do this with qemu using the -boot parameter. It allows you to select booting from a hdd image, floppy, or cdrom (or cd image) from the command line when you run the virtual machine. I think qemu may even be able to run vmware images (or maybe I'm remembering that backwards and it can only convert disk images to vmware images...) If not a command line option, there may be a way to do it from the vmplayer GUI (does it even have one? I'm not sure...) HTH, -Mark C. _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
