{"id":3489,"date":"2014-06-04T01:39:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-04T01:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/?p=3489"},"modified":"2014-06-04T01:46:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T01:46:03","slug":"how-to-install-windows-8-with-uefi-in-vmware-workstation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/how-to-install-windows-8-with-uefi-in-vmware-workstation\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Install Windows 8 with UEFI in VMware Workstation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UEFI was introduced with Windows 8 as a replacement to the BIOS system. In order to benefit from the new UEFI features, here I&#8217;ll show you how to install Windows 8 with UEFI in VMware Workstation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Requirements:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UEFI requires 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems, so you need to prepare a Windows 8 64-bit ISO image.<\/li>\n<li>VMware Workstation 8, 9 or 10.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Install Windows 8 with UEFI in VMware Workstation<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start VMware Workstation. Choose File &gt; New &gt; Virtual Machine to begin creating a new virtual machine.<\/li>\n<li>Follow the step-by-step wizard to configure your virtual machine.<\/li>\n<li>Before starting your virtual machine, open the .VMX file of your virtual machine in Notepad and add the following line to it:<br \/>\n<code>firmware=\"efi\"<\/code><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/vmware-efi-support.png\" alt=\"vmware-efi-support\" width=\"517\" height=\"221\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3491\" \/><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>Save the .VMX file. Now start your virtual machine and boot it from Windows 8 64-bit ISO image.<\/li>\n<li>Follow the on-screen instructions to install Windows 8.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>After Windows 8 installation is complete, you&#8217;ll find the virtual hard drive is partitioned with GPT instead of MBR partition table. You&#8217;re also unable to boot a UEFI-based virtual machine from a 32-bit Windows 8 ISO image.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UEFI was introduced with Windows 8 as a replacement to the BIOS system. In order to benefit from the new UEFI features, here I&#8217;ll show you how to install Windows 8 with UEFI in VMware Workstation. Requirements: UEFI requires 64-bit versions of Windows operating systems, so you need to prepare a Windows 8 64-bit ISO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,39],"tags":[1705,1703,1704,1706],"class_list":["post-3489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tips-tricks","category-windows-8","tag-enable-uefi-in-vmware-workstation","tag-install-windows-8-uefi","tag-vmware-uefi-boot","tag-vmware-workstation-uefi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3489"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3495,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3489\/revisions\/3495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.top-password.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}