I25 VMWare 15 Setup

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  1. Open VMWare 15 and click Create a New Virtual Machine.
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  2. Select "I will install the operating system later" and click Next.
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  3. Choose Windows Server 2012 from the dropdown menu and click Next.
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  4. Choose a name and location for your VM, and make a note of the location you choose for a later step.
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  5. The options you select here do not matter, just click Next.
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  6. Click the Customize Hardware button.
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  7. Change Memory to 8192MB (you can also just click 8GB to the left of the slider).
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  8. Click on Processors, and change the number of cores to 4.
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  9. Click on Network Adapter, and select the Bridged option. Then click the Close button.
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  10. Click Finish to close this window.
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  11. Right click on the VM you've just created, and select Settings.
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  12. The Hardware window will reopen, click the Add button.
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  13. Choose Hard Disk, and click Next.
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  14. Select SCSI as the disk type, and click Next.
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  15. Select "Use an existing virtual disk," and click Next.
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  16. Select the VMWare v2 image you downloaded (it must be extracted from the 7z archive first), and click Finish.
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  17. Select the first Hard Disk (not the 127GB one we just added) and click the Remove button.
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  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).
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  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.
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  20. Run the VM, and continue with server configuration from the readme file on the desktop.