I25 VMWare 15 Setup

1. Open VMWare 15 and click Create a New Virtual Machine.
   
   
   
2. Select "I will install the operating system later" and click Next.
   
   
   
3. Choose Windows Server 2012 from the dropdown menu and click Next.
   
   
   
4. Choose a name and location for your VM, and make a note of the location you choose for a later step.
   
   
   
5. The options you select here do not matter, just click Next.
   
   
   
6. Click the Customize Hardware button.
   
   
   
7. Change Memory to 8192MB (you can also just click 8GB to the left of the slider).
   
   
   
8. Click on Processors, and change the number of cores to 4.
   
   
   
9. Click on Network Adapter, and select the Bridged option. Then click the Close button.
   
   
   
10. Click Finish to close this window.
    
    
    
11. Right click on the VM you've just created, and select Settings.
    
    
    
12. The Hardware window will reopen, click the Add button.
    
    
    
13. Choose Hard Disk, and click Next.
    
    
    
14. Select SCSI as the disk type, and click Next.
    
    
    
15. Select "Use an existing virtual disk," and click Next.
    
    
    
16. Select the VMWare v2 image you downloaded (it must be extracted from the 7z archive first), and click Finish.
    
    
    
17. Select the first Hard Disk (not the 127GB one we just added) and click the Remove button.
    
    
    
18. Select the new Hard Disk, click the Advanced button, and change the Virtual device node dropdown menu to SCSI 0:0 (this should be the first option in the list, you may have to scroll up).
    
    
    
19. In the folder you chose for the VM in step 4, you will find a *.vmx file, open this in Notepad or any text editor, and add firmware = "efi" as a new line at the bottom, then save and close the file.
    
    
    
20. Run the VM, and continue with server configuration from the readme file on the desktop.