Press Enter to be able to change the EFI boot order.Ī small frame appears in the middle of the screen. Select "Change boot order" and press Enter.īy default, all boot options are selected. Select "Configure boot options" and press Enter. Select the "Enter setup" option and press Enter. Shut down the system : to turn off the virtual machine.Reset the system : to restart the virtual machine.Enter setup : to configure the EFI firmware and also the boot order in EFI mode.EFI Network : boot on the network in EFI mode.If there is an EFI compatible CD/DVD in this virtual CD/DVD drive. EFI VMware Virtual SATA CDROM Drive (1.0) : boot to the virtual SCSI CD/DVD drive.EFI VMware Virtual SCSI Hard Drive (0.0) : boot to the virtual SCSI hard drive connect to position 0.0 of the virtual SCSI controller.Windows Boot Manager : boot on the Windows installed in the virtual machine.Here, you have the option of booting directly on the desired device by selecting it with the arrows, then pressing Enter. Instead of arriving on a very simple PhoenixBIOS, you arrive on an EFI Boot Manager. If you have created a virtual machine with EFI firmware (for example with Win 8, 8.1 or 10 as guest OS) to take advantage of secure boot, for example, you will see that changing the boot order is a little more complicated.īoot your virtual machine on its EFI firmware by clicking on : Power On to Firmware. Change the boot order from the EFI firmware Change the boot order in UEFI mode (EFI firmware) 2.1. Then, press F10 to save the changes and confirm by pressing Enter.Ģ. The one at the top is the priority for others. To change the order of a device, select it with the arrows on the keyboard, then use the "+" and "-" keys to move the selected option up or down. the network boot (PXE) appears as "Network boot from Intel/AMD.virtual hard disks appear as "VMware Virtual.the floppy drive appears as "Legacy Floppy Drives" under "Removable Devices" when there is a floppy drive in your virtual machine.Go to the "Boot" tab and change the order of the desired devices : If your virtual machine uses a BIOS and not the UEFI, changing the boot order is very easy.Ĭlick on : VM -> Power -> Power On to Firmware. Change the boot order by modifying the vmx file.Change the boot order from the EFI firmware.Change the boot order in UEFI mode (EFI firmware).If you want to change the boot order from this EFI firmware or from the LEGACY BIOS of a virtual machine present on a VMware ESXi hypervisor, you can therefore also refer to the tutorial below. Note that the EFI firmware and the LEGACY BIOS used by VMware Workstation for virtual machines are identical on VMware ESXi. In addition, the EFI interface is not as easy to use, compared to the conventional BIOS. When you want to change the boot order of a virtual machine with VMware Workstation, you have several possibilities.
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