Access BIOS Settings Within VMWare Workstation VM:

This can be good if you want to set a custom time/date for example. Disabling network booting may also work.
To access the BIOS within your VMware Workstation Pro VM, edit the ".vmx" file within your VM's folder/directory and add this line following line right after .encoding = "UTF-8": to the .vmx file:
You're VMWare VM must be shutdown and any tab in VMware that you are going to edit the .vmx file must be fully closed before editing. The safest thing is just close VMware Workstation entirely.

bios.bootdelay = X

Here X represents the time in milliseconds. That means if you enter 7500, it will be delayed by 7.5 seconds.

Save the file and open VMware and start the VM.
Then when in POST, quickly make VMware capture you're inputs and press the F2 key on the Keyboard before the timer ends.

Then within BIOS settings just set the needed BIOS setting like date/time.

Source | Date: 2024

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