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encounteringproblems,deselectDisableacceleration.Youmightthenbeable
toruntheprogramwithacceleration.
bToenableloggingmode,selecttheEnableloggingcheckbox.
cToenabledebuggingmode,selectanoptionfromtheDebuggingand
Statisticssection.Debugginginformationandstatisticscanbehelpfulto
VMwaretechnicalsupportin
resolvingissues.
dTosetadvancedconfigurationparameters,clickConfigurationParameters.
Generally,youshouldonlychangethesesettingsifyouintendtouse
experimentalfeaturesorwheninstructedtodosobyaVMwaretechnical
supportrepresentative.
3 SelectAdvanced>CPUIDMask.
aSpecifywhetheryouwanttohidethehost’sCPUNx
flagfromtheguest
operatingsystem.
HidingtheNxflagpreventstheguestoperatingsystemfrommakinguseof
thisCPUfeature,butenablesthevirtualmachinetobemovedtohoststhatdo
notincludetheNxfeature.WhentheNxflagisvisible,theguestoperating
systemcan
makeuseofthefeature,butthevirtualmachinecanbemovedonly
tohostswiththeNxcapability.
bClickAdvancedtoaccesstheCPUIdentificationMaskdialogbox.An
explanationofthesymbolsinthisdialogboxisavailablebyclickingLegend.
4 SelectAdvanced>BootOptions.
aSpecifytheduration
inmillisecondsyouwanttodelayenteringtheboot
sequencewhenthevirtualmachineispoweredonorrestarted.
b SelecttheoptionunderForceBIOSSetuptohavethevirtualmachineenter
BIOSsetupwhenitboots.
Theseoptionsareusefulwhenyouneedtoenterthevirtualmachine’sBIOS
setup
becausesometimestheconsoleattachestothevirtualmachineafterthe
bootsequencepassesthepointwhereyoucanenterBIOS.
5 SelectAdvanced>Paravirtualization.SelectSupportVMIParavirtualizationto
enableVMIParavirtualizationtoenableit,ordeselectittodisablethisfeature.
VMIisaparavirtualizationstandardthatenablesimproved
performancefor
virtualmachinescapableofutilizingit.Currently,thisfeatureisavailableonlyfor
N
OTEThevirtualmachinemustbepoweredoffbeforeyoucanchange
thissetting.