You can also use the Configuration Editor to set other parameters for your virtual machine.
Check this box to change hot-key combinations from CTL-ALT-key to CTL-ALT-SHIFT-key. This is useful if you want to prevent certain key combinations (for instance, CTL-ALT-DEL) from being intercepted by VMware instead of being sent to the guest OS.
VMware always logs important events in a log file, so that if the program crashes, or other critical event occurs, some information is available to help VMware technical support understand the problem, find workarounds, and fix it in a later product release. Log files are normally written to the directory that contains the virtual machine configuration file.
In many cases, however, the logged information is not sufficient. An error message may ask you to run with the logging level set to debug and try to repeat the problem. This enables additional logging that can make it easier, or possible, to fix the problem.
Enabling debugging information makes the log file grow faster, and also turns on a large number of internal consistency checks that can slow down execution. For this reason, unless you are trying to reproduce a problem, it is best to run with the level set to normal.
Some advanced boot managers, but not basic boot managers such as LILO or NT MultiBoot, solve this problem by changing the partition type of all the partitions not needed by the operating system being booted to "unknown" type. If you are not using a boot manager, then selecting Disk Partition Hiding has the same effect.
When this option is enabled, only the partitions for which the virtual machine has Read/Write access are visible to the guest operating system. The other partitions are changed to "unknown" type. In addition, all writes to the Master Boot Record (MBR) where this information is recorded, are intercepted. This allows multiple operating systems to run on the same disk, but with different views of the same partitions.
Because of this feature, however, one of these advanced boot manager program run inside a virtual machine with Disk Partition Hiding enabled will not function properly. If you wish to use an advanced boot manager program, or install a new boot manager from within a virtual machine, then the Disk Partition Hiding option should be turned off. See Configuring IDE Drives and Configuring Disk Partitions for more information on configuring and using raw disks.
If a path name is enabled, VMware stores all redo logs in that directory.