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9. Creating a Windows VMs

Peter von Oven1  
(1)
Gloucestershire, UK
 

Now that we have discussed the virtual hardware, installed VMware Workstation Pro on our device, and given an overview of the user interface, it is now time to build the first virtual machines.

In this chapter we are going to focus on building Windows-based virtual machines and will build, configure, and install three Windows operating systems:

  • Windows 10

  • Windows 11

  • Windows Server 2022

With the two desktop-based operating systems, we are going to use two different build methods. First, we will ...

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