Today while tryng to do a V2V migration form Parallels to VMWare, I had the need to boot my current VM into BartPE so I could create an image with Tru Image. When the VM started up, I tried to press al sorts of F key combos to get to the BIOS screen. In Virtual Server/Virtual PC, pressing F2 does the trick; but in Parallels it was not working.
After taking a trip to the VM preferences, I found that this is set within the VM properties, and is actually quite simple:
