2021-07-20, 09:09:37
Hi,
Encrypted VM are not yet supported, that's correct.
It should at least give a clear error that it cannot backup the VM because it is encrypted, did it not do that?
re. Windows 11, well.. for a VM you don't actually have to encrypt or enable a TPM. Something I can confirm as I have created a Windows 11 VM here that fails on numerous requirements.
It doesn't have a TPM, is not encrypted and uses BIOS instead of UEFI. It is not that I didn't want to enable all that, it is that the Windows 10 VM I upgraded didn't have any of that either. So I expected it to error out during the upgrade, but it didn't.
This appears to be by design.
To put it in another way. Microsoft relaxes the requirements for virtual machines as was found by VMTN user SvenGus here [1]
To quote SvenGus:
[1] https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware...ue#M174764
Encrypted VM are not yet supported, that's correct.
It should at least give a clear error that it cannot backup the VM because it is encrypted, did it not do that?
re. Windows 11, well.. for a VM you don't actually have to encrypt or enable a TPM. Something I can confirm as I have created a Windows 11 VM here that fails on numerous requirements.
It doesn't have a TPM, is not encrypted and uses BIOS instead of UEFI. It is not that I didn't want to enable all that, it is that the Windows 10 VM I upgraded didn't have any of that either. So I expected it to error out during the upgrade, but it didn't.
This appears to be by design.
To put it in another way. Microsoft relaxes the requirements for virtual machines as was found by VMTN user SvenGus here [1]
To quote SvenGus:
SvenGus Wrote:BTW, in this document:
https://download.microsoft.com/download/...f2/Minimum Hardware Requirements for Windows 11.pdf
… they say that certain requirements are ignored when Windows 11 detects a virtual environment:
5 Virtual Machine
Microsoft recognizes that the user experience when running the Windows 11 in virtualized environments may vary from the experience when running non-virtualized. So, while Microsoft recommends that all virtualized instances of the Windows 11 follow the same minimum hardware requirements as described in Section 1.2, the Windows 11 does not apply the hardware-compliance check for virtualized instances either during setup or upgrade. Note that, if the virtualized environment is provisioned such that it does not meet the minimum requirements, this will have an impact to aspects of the user experience when running the OS in the virtualized environment.
[1] https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware...ue#M174764