MAN. How frustrating.

I spent the last 2 hours over this

Problem: I created a new virtual machine. VMWare WON’T BOOT FROM CD!! It keeps on trying to do a network boot

SOLUTION

HACK OPEN the .vmx file for your virtual machine (open in any text editor)

ide0:1.present = “TRUE”
ide0:1.fileName = “d:”
ide0:1.deviceType = “cdrom-raw”
ide0:1.autodetect = “FALSE”