You can select the firmware type for a virtual machine.
You can change your firmware type of a virtual machine after you create the virtual machine.
Prerequisites
- To change the firmware type of an existing virtual machine, the guest operating system is powered off.
- The software to boot the system is installed.
- If you want to select Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) as the firmware type, verify that the following conditions are met:
- The guest operating system to be installed on the virtual machine supports UEFI firmware.
- The virtual machine does not have virtualization-based security (VBS) enabled.
- The virtual machine uses hardware version 8 or later.
- The virtual machine has a Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 2012, or Windows 2016 guest operating system.
- If you want to select UEFI Secure Boot, verify that the following conditions are met.
- The virtual machine uses the UEFI firmware type.
- The virtual machine uses hardware version 14 or later.
Procedure
Results
When you start the virtual machine, it boots with the selected firmware configuration.