There is no such option for vmplayer. On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Mark Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> 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 > -- http://www.Radados.org
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