Cant control the vmware bios or another when I tring to install windows

[E_L]

I installed Windows XP, and it's working great. Still, now I trying to install windows 98 from my cd drive, and it's not working well the VMWARE bios do not detect my keyboard, and it's not giving me to change the bios settings at the end of the post it's saying that no operating system detected and I cant to do nothing....

How to make VMWARE bios to reply to the keyboard.

[RDPetruska]

Well, first off, you must click into the Guest window once you power it on for the keyboard and mouse to be passed to the guest.  So, you would need to mouse-click in the VM window, then hit whatever function key required to change boot device, etc.

However, you can also use the Workstation menu VM-->Power-->Power On to Firmware to start the VM and go directly into the BIOS setup.

[E_L]

I tried that, but in the firmware, when I have grabbed the input, it's still not reacting to my gestures.

[continuum]

Inside the virtual bios you navigate with the arrow keys - not with the mouse.

[E_L]

I navigating with the key arrows but it's still not reacting.

[RDPetruska]

You do still need to click the mouse into the VM window to give it focus for the keyboard, even if you have booted directly into the BIOS.

What version of Workstation are you using?  What is the host OS?

[E_L]

I know all of that I'm not new to VMWARE. I tried a lot to troubleshoot this problem and it not solved yet...

[E_L]

I am using VMWARE workstation 15 pro, and my OS is Windows 10

[RDPetruska]

Is the Win 98 installation disc you have bootable?  Trying to remember back that far - not all Win95 and Win98 CDs were bootable, but required one to three boot floppies to run the initial setup of the hard disk and CD-ROM drivers.

I'm very surprised that the keys don't allow navigation in the VM BIOS - I've never seen that behaviour.

[E_L]

My cd is Microsoft original for fresh installtion.

I surprised as you, I didn't find any info on the web for this problem.

[kasparsrink]

I had a similar problem. 

For me it was working but really, really slow. 

It took 5 seconds for each keypress to register