Enable UEFI in VMWare Workstation

What you need to do to enable UEFI in your VMWare machine?

  1. Create a new virtual machine

  2. Open the .VMX file of your virtual machine in Notepad (or similar) and add the following line to it:

     firmware="efi"

  3. Save .VMX file

    In addition, order to be able to select network boot, it is advisable to add a boot delay to the startup of the virtual machine. This can be done by adding the line bios.bootdelay = 5000 (time is in milliseconds).

Update

On VMWare Workstation 16, you can simply enable EUFI on the Virtual Machine Settings ➜ Options ➜ Advanced ➜ Firmware Type as below:

Enable UEFI in VMWare Workstation 16
Enable UEFI in VMWare Workstation 16