If you’re like me then you hate it when you have to either go into the BIOS of a VM or make it boot to a CD. You’re given so little time to press the ‘F2’ or ‘ESC’ keys that it invariably takes you several times to actually do so successfully. I found this line to add to your VMX file so you can give yourself more time.
bios.bootdelay = “3000”
In this instance I’m telling it to wait 3 seconds before booting the VM. My life is instantly easier.