Windows 11

[cstocci]

Folks,

I am reading that the new Windows 11 TPM 2.0 requirement will be potentially a killer for VM operations. I am a licensed user for Workstation Pro 16.x and beyond. Currently, running Windows 10 Pro latest updates and version.

I have not installed, nor do I intend to install Windows 11 on October 5th, 2021 when it is released. I am smarter than that with Microsoft products!! However, I will upgrade later, perhaps next year sometime. Hopefully, this TPM 2.0 issue will resolve itself, especially with VMWare products and in the event one were to upgrade some physical hardware on their machine.

What are your thoughts about this upcoming Windows 11 upgrade and in particular, your thoughts on the TPM 2.0 requirement.

Chris

[wila]

Hi,

TPM2.0 support has been added to VMware Workstation since years?
Here's a link from Workstation 14 documentation in 2017 ... https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Workstation-Pro/14.0/com.vmware.ws.using.doc/GUID-B42CAC2A-DC3D-4F...

So the TPM2.0 requirement itself is not a problem.

What's a bit less convenient is that at this moment you have to encrypt the VM in order to enable the TPM2.0 feature. In the past that made sense, now for the Win11 requirement it would make sense to also have TPM2.0 support without having to encrypt your VM.

There's a reply to a post from last week from the VMware workstation Product manager to state that they are looking into that.

See here:
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Workstation-Pro/Windows-11-vTPM/td-p/2867009/jump-to/first-...

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Wil