ESXI will not boot VM, says Operating System not found

[VMucker]

I have a disc in the cd tray, and mapped the cd tray to the instance, but it does not boot from cd, so I cannot install an OS.

I'm trying to build an XP machine as a test.

The wizards all finish happily, but the machine is a no-go. How do I get them to work?

[vXav]

Hi,

I don't know if you are using a vCenter so I'll assume you're connected directly to the host with the vsphere client.

Edit the settings of your VM and go to the Option tab > Advanced > Boot Options > Set a value to "Power On Boot Delay" in milliseconds

so 10000 for 10 sec for example.

It will give you the time to either enter your bios and set the boot order or enter the boot menu.

Let me know how it goes.

Xavier.