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How to enable UEFI in VMWare

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philipp.orak 2013/2/25 5:41 LANDave 2014/4/1 6:39

LANDesk Management Suite 9.5 Provisioning now supports UEFI.

VMWare Workstation 8, 9, and 10 support booting to a UEFI environment.
What you need to do to enable UEFI in your VMWare machine?
1. Create a new virtual machine
2. Open the .VMX file of your virtual machine in Notepad (or similar) and add the following line to it:
firmware="efi"
3. Save the .VMX file.

In addition, order to be able to select network boot, it is advisable to add a boot delay to the startup of the
virtual machine.
This can be done by adding the line "bios.bootdelay = 5000" (time is in milliseconds)

Note: As an alternative to VMWare Workstation, you can also use VirtualBox, which is an open source
virtualizer: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/VirtualBox
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https://community.landesk.com/support/docs/DOC-27736

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