View source for I25 VMWare 15 Setup

# Open VMWare 15 and click '''Create a New Virtual Machine'''.<br />[[File:Vmw15-00.png]]<br /><br />
# Select '''"I will install the operating system later"''' and click Next.<br />[[File:Vmw15-01.png]]<br /><br />
# Choose '''Windows Server 2012''' from the dropdown menu and click Next.<br />[[File:Vmw15-02.png]]<br /><br />
# Choose a name and location for your VM, and '''make a note of the location you choose''' for a later step.<br />[[File:Vmw15-03.png]]<br /><br />
# The options you select here do not matter, just click '''Next'''.<br />[[File:Vmw15-04.png]]<br /><br />
# Click the '''Customize Hardware''' button.<br />[[File:Vmw15-05.png]]<br /><br />
# Change Memory to '''8192MB''' (you can also just click 8GB to the left of the slider).<br />[[File:Vmw15-06.png]]<br /><br />
# Click on '''Processors''', and change the '''number of cores to 4'''.<br />[[File:Vmw15-06v2.png]]<br /><br />
# Click on '''Network Adapter''', and select the '''Bridged''' option. Then click the Close button.<br />[[File:Vmw15-08.png]]<br /><br />
# Click '''Finish''' to close this window.<br />[[File:Vmw15-09.png]]<br /><br />
# Right click on the VM you've just created, and select '''Settings'''.<br />[[File:Vmw15-10.png]]<br /><br />
# The Hardware window will reopen, click the '''Add''' button.<br />[[File:Vmw15-11.png]]<br /><br />
# Choose '''Hard Disk''', and click Next.<br />[[File:Vmw15-12.png]]<br /><br />
# Select '''SCSI''' as the disk type, and click Next.<br />[[File:Vmw15-13.png]]<br /><br />
# Select '''"Use an existing virtual disk,"''' and click Next.<br />[[File:Vmw15-14.png]]<br /><br />
# Select the '''VMWare v2 image you downloaded''' (it must be extracted from the 7z archive first), and click Finish.<br />[[File:Vmw15-15.png]]<br /><br />
# Select the first Hard Disk (not the 127GB one we just added) and click the '''Remove''' button.<br />[[File:Vmw15-16.png]]<br /><br />
# 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).<br />[[File:Vmw15-17.png]]<br /><br />
# 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 {{ms|1 = firmware = "efi"}} as a new line at the bottom, then save and close the file.<br />[[File:Vmw15-18.png]]<br /><br />
# Run the VM, and continue with server configuration from the readme file on the desktop.