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Secure Boot on Windows 10 Pro hosted on VMWare Fusion

jaxindevon — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 13:07:26 GMT

Hi All

I've searched the web for the steps required to enable 'Secure Boot' in Windows 10 for a guest machine which runs on WMWare Fusion. I have read the following

https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.security.doc/GUID-898217D4-689D-4EB5-866C-888353FE241C.html#:~:text=Procedure 1 Browse to the virtual machine in,to enable secure boot. ... 6 Click OK.

Win10 secure boot inside vmware fusion – DiabloHorn

The first is not relevant to Fusion and the second suggests the following. I have completed the first two steps but not really sure about the last step. My machine is already built and if I try the steps on a new machine I can't add a TPM chip as it says UEFI firmware is required.

Enable EFI by adding the following to the ‘.vmx’ file
- firmware = “efi”
Enable VT-x/EPT
- can be found in setting under “Processors & Memory”, “advanced settings”
Choose OS type “Hyper-V (unsupported)

Can anyone point to the correct method to achieve this?

Kind regards

Re: Secure Boot on Windows 10 Pro hosted on VMWare Fusion

Technogeezer — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 15:03:53 GMT

What version of Fusion?

On Fusion 12 Player, I just created a VM with an OS type of “Windows 10 and later x64”. During the VM creation process, a dialog appreared that offered to use BIOS or UEFI, and the UEFI option had a checkbox for Secure Boot. That process placed the following 2 lines in my .vmx file:

firmware = efi

uefi.secureBoot.enabled = “TRUE”

So at worst if these 2 entries are in the .vmx file Secure Boot should be enabled.

I could have sworn that I saw a selection box for this in prior Fusion versions for Secure Boot by going to Settings -> Advanced for the VM. But I’m running Fusion 12 Player, not Pro and that selection does not appear in Settings. I can’t tell if the ability to enable Secure Boot in the Settings is present in Pro. .

Re: Secure Boot on Windows 10 Pro hosted on VMWare Fusion

jaxindevon — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 18:07:00 GMT

Brilliant, uefi.secureBoot.enabled = “TRUE” was the setting I was missing. Added this and its enabled.

Thanks