May 31, 2010
Boot VMWare Fusion from CD

On my mac I have VMWare Fusion installed with two virtual machines, one windows xp and one linux xubuntu.

I would like to boot xubuntu VM from an ISO but the bios splash screen is really fast on VMWare :)

So I found this trick to force the VM to enter in BIOS configuration.

Go to the VM file, show package content, edit the file .vmx adding this line:

bios.forceSetupOnce = “TRUE”

That’s all! On the next boot the VM will go into the BIOS configuration .. useful! :)