Put A Virtual Machine In Safemode

General, VMWare | Allen White | May 25, 2011 at 2:23 pm

IT Problem

In VMWare you would like to put one of your virtual machines into safemode.Safemode is stull isefull in a virtual enviroment as the servers stll suffer from services issues etc.The problem we have when putting a virtual machine into safemode is that the Vm boots so damn fast! Going into safemode is done the same way as normal with F8, HOWEVER, most of the time will not go into safemode as you need to change the boot pause so we get more time to catch the F8 option.

IT Solution

This is a simple fix. So on your VM host, right click the effected Virtual Machine and select Edit Settings.

At the top of the screen that appears you have three options, select the second called Options.

You then need to select Boot Options. Once done on the right you will see the section called Power On Boot Delay.

It is in milliseconds so I normally set it to 5000 ( 5 seconds. ). Once done apply it then you should be able to catch the virtual machine to put it into safe mode.

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