Create a secure virtual machine with VMware Workstation 16 or 15

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24 April 2020 at 08:53 UTC

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2. Installing Windows

Now, you can start this virtual machine.

Since we chose "UEFI / Secure Boot", the VM starts with VMware's UEFI firmware and not with the classic BIOS created by Phoenix.

Press any key to boot on the Windows 10 installation DVD, if this message appears.

The virtual machine boots on the Windows 10 installation DVD.

And the installation wizard appears.
Install Windows as you would on a physical PC.

Note : if needed, refer to our tutorial : Windows 10 - Formatting and reinstalling

Once Windows 10 is installed, don't forget to install the VMware Tools in the guest OS.
If you perform a custom installation, you will see that the VMware Tools include an EFI firmware update.

Since we selected "UEFI" when creating our virtual machine, Windows 10 is installed in EFI version.
This caused the appearance of 2 additional system partitions on the hard disk selected during the installation of Windows 10 :

a 450 MB recovery partition
a 99 MB EFI system partition

If you right-click "Properties" on the hard disk where Windows 10 was installed (in our case : disk 0) and you go to the "Volumes" tab, you will see that this hard disk has a GUID Partition Table (GPT).

If you open the Device Manager in the guest OS, you will see a "Trusted Platform Module 2.0" present in the "Security devices" section.