VM BIOS Delay
One of the great advantages of VMs is their ability to boot incredibly fast. You don't have to wait for any of the device initialization that plague traditional physical system. One of the *disadvantages* of having a VM boot so quickly though is that it's hard to get into the BIOS of a VM. VMware has addressed this issue in ESX 3.5.0 with an option under the device settings which will allow you to adjust the delay that the BIOS has, and a checkbox to force the VM to enter BIOS on the next reboot:
This feature received little to no announcement in the 3.5.0 release, but to anyone who has to maintain VMs this is a great improvement.
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