How To Install Windows 10 on VMWare

In this tutorial , we're going to create new VMWARE workstation pro virtual machine and then install Microsoft Windows 10 in the first menu that's presented to you when you launch VMWARE , we'll create , create a new virtual machine .

In here .

We're going to pick up custom option on this screen .

You can pick hardware compatibility .

You should consider choosing different options , but I'll choose the latest workstation vmware 15 and click next here .

You can choose from uh installer desk .

If I would have a DVD or installer disk image or choose an option , I'll install the operating system later .

And this is the option .

I'm going to choose here .

I'll pick uh Microsoft Windows because this is gonna be the guest operating system .

I will be installing and I will here choose Windows 10 X 64 .

And here you give a name .

It doesn't matter which name you will choose .

Uh And you would need to pick a spot where you will be installing .

This is where the large files will be created .

So if C drive is not the right place , you can probably pick a different place , maybe D drive if you have a bigger drive depending upon your hardware configuration , I'll leave the virtual machine name as default windows 10 X 64 and leave the location default as well .

Here you have to choose uh bias versus EF five and define if you would like to do a secure boot .

Uh I'll click uh keep a default option .

UF five , a newer version of bias .

And I'm not gonna choose secure number of processors .

The best practice for VM Ware is just to use one processor .

You can use a more than one processor .

Um But um it's typically not recommended if you're running multiple virtual machines , depending upon your configuration , you might have challenges if you choose more than one processor .

So one processor in two cores is a good configuration .

I'm gonna click next here .

You choose the amount of memory .

Uh The good amount is two gigabytes .

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Here , you choose the size , I typically recommend storing um a virtual disk as one single file because that's the fastest performance .

Uh But uh the selecting , selecting the bottom option uh gives you more choices if for example , your operating system doesn't support files larger than four gigabytes or your USB system , which is not the case anymore , it used to be .

So I would not recommend selecting this option because that's slower performance .

So keep all your hard disk as one as one file .

Here .

You choose the name of the file and you browse for the location .

We just choose a default windows , 10 X 64 V MD X by default , it creates small file , but then it grows as uh windows uh or any applications or you add more files into the operating system .

And then we'll click finish this other kind of the summary of uh everything that you've done a name , location of the files , uh version of operating system .

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We've got no ending this in sight to the I wanna do .

No .

So we'll click finish if we go back to VM Ware , what we can do now we can insert this virtual uh windows installation file into our virtual DVD .

Uh And the way we do it is we click on the edit virtual machine settings , we click on the CD DVD and here we choose , use iso file , image option and click browse and uh what we have here in the documents .

If we go to documents , this is the Windows iso file that I just downloaded .

And I also need to choose the option connected power on to make sure that this DVD will be connected .

I'm gonna click .

OK .

And I'm going to pour on this virtual machine .

So I had to click a microphone , uh mute button here uh to continue the process .

And we'll choose region United States , a keyboard layout for United States .

Us , we're not gonna add any additional layouts .

So we're gonna skip this additional layout options here .

We will not be signing in with Microsoft Accounts instead we'll create local accounts .

So we'll choose option domain join instead .

And uh here we'll create a user id for our PC and then we'll set up security questions uh will accept uh tan as a personal system or you can decline for VM Ware , it might be hard with hardware uh because we have to have a special hardware to do it .

So I'm gonna decline .

So you choose this to support Microsoft uh uh program , we will choose default privacy settings .

So we are done here but you see , my screen is rather small .

Um And I do not have a driver that fits screen well , so what we're gonna do and there are some other limitations .

Uh I'm pretty sure if I try networking connection , it wouldn't work .

So what needs to happen ?

Uh We need to install VM Ware tool which will update all the drivers .

And you see VM Ware conveniently downloaded all the tools for us .

We just need to click , install tools .

And what's gonna happen is uh it will insert uh downloaded iso file for VM ware tool that it downloaded uh into the D drive .

Uh And we just need to click file explorer here .

And if we go to the D drive , we just need to go to this PC and this is D drive VM ware tool .

We'll just click uh set up 64 confirm , click .

Yes .

And it will trigger the VM ware tool installation process .

I'll just go through the wizard and choose default options , typical installation click and and we click finish and after restart , we should see much , much better resolution and uh all the features of VM Ware working uh much , much better and much more integrated with latest version of windows and looks like um we need to go to VM Ware view and we can choose option feed guest now and now our resolution feeds the guest window .

And that was possible because we installed VM Ware tools .

You're gonna check for updates and you click check for updates button and it should automatically download and install uh all Windows updates .

So your uh installation is secure while it's doing it , let's quickly go back to the host operating system .

Uh And we will click on the documents uh virtual machines and what you can see here in virtual machines .

This is our virtual machine that we've created the Windows 10 X 64 and this is where all the files are located .

You see that right now V MD K file , which represents the disk , hard disk , uh windows , 10 X 64 is 10 gigabytes .

But when you shut down and close your virtual machine , you uh it typically goes down .

This is the temporary file , uh memory file , uh two gigabyte memory file .

And there are some other files that only uh get created when you're running virtual machine .

So what you might want to do is once installation is complete and updates are complete for Windows .

You might wanna go and uh choose uh compact this file and uh this will make it much , much smaller and much more transportable if this is what you're trying to accomplish .

Now , let's go back to Windows update and you see that it's continuing to updating Windows and installing uh missing components because we , once we log in and go back to check for updates , it should show that it's up to date .

You see this green check box uh and that indication that it's uh your windows is up to date .

Once you're done with updates , you can shut down virtual machine .

And the way to do it is either through the windows uh shutdown button .

So you click start a button and then click power .

And then there are multiple options like in the regular uh hardware based windows installation .

So you can either choose restart or you can choose shutdown and it will safely shut down windows operating system .

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