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Win7 Bitlocker on a VMWarePlayer host system

Hello,

I would like to ask if there could be problems after activating Bitlocker on a Windows-based VM host ... in general?

We have many Win7-Enterprise-64 HP notebooks for our staff.

Some of our software developers got their own notebook as a second machine (additional to their PC).

They have VMWare Player installed on their notebooks to test several applications and PHP program code.

Some VMs are Linux-based, some are Windows-based.

We would like to activate Bitlocker on all laptops (full, all partitions, with TMP and forced Start-PIN) - but only on the VM host systems, of course.

Is there something we should take notice of, concerning the VMs?

Do the apps on the encrypted physical machine (for example VMWarePlayer) realize the technical fact the the host system is encrypted?

TD

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wila
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Hi,

This should just work.

As far as VMware Player is concerned, it is not aware of any encryption at all.

That is at the host layer only.

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Wil

| Author of Vimalin. The virtual machine Backup app for VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation and Player |
| More info at vimalin.com | Twitter @wilva

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wila
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Hi,

This should just work.

As far as VMware Player is concerned, it is not aware of any encryption at all.

That is at the host layer only.

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Wil

| Author of Vimalin. The virtual machine Backup app for VMware Fusion, VMware Workstation and Player |
| More info at vimalin.com | Twitter @wilva
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td2015lb
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Many thanks!

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