VMWare Workstation for Windows 10 includes the following topics.
Installation Instructions for Windows 10.
Installing VMware Tools in a Windows 10 Guest.
Knowledge Base Articles for Windows 10.
VMware Compatibility Guide.
Installation Instructions for VMWare Workstation on Windows 10
You can install Windows 10 in a virtual machine using the corresponding Windows 10 distribution CD.Prerequisites to VMWare Workstation for Windows 10
Before you begin, verify that the following tasks are complete.
Read General Installation Instructions for All VMware Products.Read the Microsoft System Requirements for the recommended storage and memory values.
Create and configure a new virtual machine with the appropriate virtual storage and virtual memory to support the intended workload.
During the guest OS configuration process, when selecting the Guest OS, Windows 10 selections are available for VMware vSphere 6.0, VMware Workstation 11, VMware Fusion 7 and later releases. For VMware vSphere 5.5, if a Windows 10 option is not available, select Windows 8.
Installation Steps VMWare Workstation for Windows 10
Insert the Windows 10 CD or DVD in the CD-ROM drive.Start the virtual machine. This begins the Windows installation.
(Optional) If you are using VMware Paravirtual as the default SCSI controller, install the pvscsidriver.
When Windows installer displays the screen, Where do you want to install Windows, switch the current virtual machine’s CD drive to point to the VMware Tools .iso image.
For example, in the vSphere client:
Right click the virtual machine and select Guest > Install/Update VMware Tools.
From the installer screen, Where do you want to install Windows, click Load driver.
From the installer screen, Select the driver to install, click Browse and browse to thepvscsi driver directory in the VMware Tools .iso image.
Select the driver appropriate to your Windows operating system:
for 64-bit OS: select CD Driver/Program Files/VMware/VMware Tools/Drivers/pvscsi/amd64
for 32-bit OS: select CD Driver/Program Files/VMware/VMware Tools/Drivers/pvscsi/
Click OK, wait until the pvscsi driver is recognized successfully, then click Next.
When the installer displays the Where do you want to install Windows screen, switch the virtual machine’s CD drive to the Windows installation disk and continue the Windows installation.
For example, in the vSphere client:
Click the CD icon and select CD/DVD driver1 > Disconnect from …
Click the CD icon again and select the Windows .iso image.
Click Next to continue the Windows installation.
If the Next button is gray and cannot be clicked, click Refresh, then re-click Next.
Follow the prompts to complete the installation.
Install VMware Tools.
(Optional) On VMware Fusion, install Boot Camp drivers so that the guest operating system can access hardware devices on the physical machine. here
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