This post is actually a follow-up to my thread at http://communities.vmware.com/thread/318603 but I think I'd better start a new discussion.
First, a little summary:
In vMA 4.1, it was possible to press any key to interrupt the automatied boot (blue screen), enter 'a' to modify kernel string and add 'single' at the end of the string and at boot up, run nano /etc/sysconfig/keyboard to change the keyboard.
But in vMA 5.0, it is no longer possible to do so! So, what could we do? This is particularly troublesome for non-English keyboard users since VMware engineers now require a stronger password policy but how are we supposed to enter a GOOD password if we can "see" what we are typing?
VMware should really send its engineers to internationalisation courses and make them write the following passage five times a day:
- English is only one language in the world
- At most only 15% of the world's computer users are using English keyboard