- #Vmware workstation 10 x64 how to#
- #Vmware workstation 10 x64 install#
- #Vmware workstation 10 x64 drivers#
- #Vmware workstation 10 x64 windows 10#
In any case the drive letter will only be needed for deployment, it will be freed when VHD will be unmounted. Edit script to meet your needs, be sure the drive you create VHD has double the free storage than the size of VHD if you will create a 100 GB VHD file to be used in dual boot, the drive where it will be created needs 200 GB free.Īlso, be sure to assign an unused drive letter! I always use W: which I have reserved for this purpose, never assigning it to anything else. vhdx) named W10PRO.vhdx in root of drive F:, labels it Windows and assigns it a temporary drive letter W. To run a DISKPART script, enter following command:Ĭode: create vdisk file=F:\W10PRO.vhdx maximum=51200 type=expandableĪbove script creates a dynamically expanding MBR partitioned 50 GB (51,200 MB) VHDX file (you can use. The DISKPART script and deployment batch from video:ĭISKPART scripts are normal text files with extension.
#Vmware workstation 10 x64 how to#
See this tutorial for more information: Native boot Virtual Hard Disk - How to upgrade Windows
The VHD can then be used as native boot VHD, or on a VM. This takes care of the partitioning, doing it correctly.
#Vmware workstation 10 x64 windows 10#
If you for any reason want to use a GPT partitioned VHD in native boot (can't think any valid reason!), it is better and recommended that you first create a Generation 2 VM in Hyper-V, installing Windows 10 on it. An MBR partitioned VHD is easy to attach to VM, it only needs Windows partition to be marked active, whereas a GPT partitioned VHD with only a single partition for Windows requires manually creating system partitions before it can be used on VM. When creating VHD file to be used in native boot, always use MBR partitioning! To upgrade Windows on native boot VHD, it must be temporarily attached to a virtual machine. Some sandboxing IMO is like a lot of these 3rd party Anti Virus solutions - a C20 solution (e.g time of Win 7 etc) when we've got far better C21 systems available.
#Vmware workstation 10 x64 install#
I'd tend to forget using Sandbox - even if you don't want to use a VM - HDD's are mega cheap these days -just fire up another Windows install for your test - on the same hardware - activation won't be necessary.
#Vmware workstation 10 x64 drivers#
VM's take a lot more setting up but these days very efficient and are perfectly good for testing pretty well everything (unless you require real access to the underlying hardware -e.g writing fast video game drivers for specific graphic cards / GPU's etc).Įven then some of the latest hypervisors - HYPER-V / QEMU/KVM etc allow hardware passthru so you can use the real OS drivers rather than the paravirtualised ones which make VM's have the possibility of running at near native speed and performance - OK VMWare isn't in that league but all I'm saying here is that using a VM for all sorts of things today is absolutely OK - even a few years ago running a video player like VLC on a VM was sluggish etc.Īnother possibility is to use a cheap cloud server - so many options today that never existed (certainly at affordable consumer prices) even 3 years ago. Sandboxing is fine if you can test things properly and they are persistent until you want to get rid of them - currently Windows Sandbox is not much use. Problem nr 3 (possibly) I think you need Windows Pro as you will need to enable part of Windows HYPER-V - might not be possible on HOME editions - I don't know for sure but I think this is also a restriction. Problem nr 2 - can't move Windows sandbox data to your own choice of drives /directories. I don't think you can re-boot the sandbox itself (not the main Windows machine) without also losing persistence. Problem nr 1 for Windows Sandbox - if you need to test software that needs a re-boot after install e,g configuration changes etc then Windows Sandbox isn't really much use.The Sandbox isn't persistent over re-boots. Which would be best? I want the TPM chip to be in play here. Been doing some software testing with nasty malware.