{"id":106,"date":"2010-06-14T23:35:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-14T22:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=106"},"modified":"2025-04-02T09:51:19","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T08:51:19","slug":"i-can-never-get-into-the-bios-under-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=106","title":{"rendered":"I can never get into the BIOS under vmware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can never get into the BIOS under vmware<br \/>\nPublished on 11\/12\/2008 in General.<br \/>\nJust paste the following text into the image\u2019s vmx file while it\u2019s shut down:<br \/>\nbios.forceSetupOnce = &#8220;TRUE&#8221;<\/p>\n<p># The VMware Fusion BIOS posts too quickly to access.<br \/>\nMost users will not need to access the BIOS, but advanced users might want to do so, to change the boot order, set a boot password, or enable a second floppy drive. To work around this problem, use a text editor to add the following line to the configuration (.vmx) file of the virtual machine:<br \/>\nbios.forceSetupOnce = &#8220;TRUE&#8221;<br \/>\nThe next time you boot up the virtual machine, it will automatically boot into the BIOS. This configuration option then reverts to FALSE. You must set the option to TRUE each time you want to boot the virtual machine into the BIOS.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/ryanschwartz.net\/2008\/11\/12\/i-can-never-get-into-the-bios-under-vmware<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can never get into the BIOS under vmware Published on 11\/12\/2008 in General. Just paste the following text into the image\u2019s vmx file while it\u2019s shut down: bios.forceSetupOnce = &#8220;TRUE&#8221; # The VMware Fusion BIOS posts too quickly to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/?p=106\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-notes","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=106"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2114,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106\/revisions\/2114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevenwhiting.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}