Summary: How to configure boot options on vSphere VMs.
Date: Around 2014
Refactor: 1 May 2025: Checked links and formatting.

Do you also think that the boot screen is gone before you know it in VMware. Ever tried to boot into the BIOS and you couldn't do it because the boot screen was already gone when you got control of the keyboard?

This is your solution:

The first setting here is in milliseconds how long the boot screen will stay, but the second one is even more handy. Check the box to make sure the VM boots into bios on next boot. How nice is that!