You can change the level of security of a virtual machine by enabling or disabling VBS for the virtual machine.
Prerequisites
- The virtual machine must be of hardware version 14 or later.
- The guest OS must be Windows 10 or Windows Server 2016 and later.
- The virtual machine must be powered off.
Procedure
- Click Virtual Machines in the VMware Host Client inventory.
- Right-click a virtual machine in the list and select Edit settings from the pop-up menu.
- On the VM Options tab, enable or disable VBS for the virtual machine.
- Select the Enable Virtualization Based Security check box to enable VBS for the virtual machine.
- Deselect the Enable Virtualization Based Security check box to disable VBS for the virtual machine.
When you enable VBS, several options are automatically selected and become dimmed in the wizard.
- Click Save to close the wizard.