Changing num lock state on boot, VMWare Player

Question

All of a sudden I am unable to generate APKs. I have been running into a series of different errors. It looks like something is wrong with my multi-dex. Any help with this is appreciate, thanks!

I tried to update my android support libraries and then I ran into another error

Solution

This can be easily done by adding either the line

bios.forceSetupOnce = "TRUE"

or

bios.bootDelay = "xxxx" (milliseconds, 5000 works fine)

to the .vmx file in a text editor of choice. This will either force the VM to go into setup on boot once (the line is removed after that) or create a delay long enough for you to press the setup key to enter the BIOS (you may not want this every time). The BIOS has a menu for keyboard options that includes the setting for num lock state on boot.

Source of this information is a VMware KB article: Accessing the BIOS when the POST screen clears too quickly.

Comments

[essjae]

Slight syntax error, it should be bios.forceSetupOnce = "TRUE" to enter the BIOS one time.