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Whgibbo20111014
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‎05-02-2018 02:14 PM

VM Workstation 14.1.1 and Virtual TPM

Hi,

I've been playing about with the virtual TPM... It works, great job Smiley Happy

So I had a win10 x64 UEFI VM with TPM enabled and wanted to boot using a USB to the EFI shell.  Turns out this isn't possible.  The boot menu shows the USB Stick, but won't work Smiley Sad

The same USB stick works fine with a physical machine that has a TPM enabled..

Any thoughts or suggestions?

Thanks

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dariusd
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‎05-05-2018 02:30 AM

New Windows 10 x64 virtual machines will enable Secure Boot by default, and I would guess that your EFI Shell is not a signed EFI application so it's being rejected by the Secure Boot checks.  Try powering the VM off and reconfiguring it to disable Secure Boot​.

Once Secure Boot is disabled, you'll find that there is actually a built-in EFI Shell included in the firmware for your convenience (although it's not an environment that we officially validate and support).  It should appear in the list of bootable devices once Secure Boot is turned off.  You'll only need to boot the Shell from a USB device if you need a newer version of the Shell... the bundled EFI Shell version is rather old and out-of-date.

Cheers,

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Darius

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