HP Microsoft Windows Server 2012 manual Installation on VMware Virtual machines

For Smart Start\Intelligent Provisioning assisted installation for either HP-branded or non HP-branded Windows Server® 2008 R2 wSP1\Windows Server 2012\Windows Server 2012 R2 Media DVD

1.After the operating system installation is complete, run the following command from the command prompt:

NOTE: In the following command line after the word "Hewlett-Packard" there are 17 blank spaces before the quotation mark that must be entered as part of the command.

Reg Add "HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Virtualization" /v BiosLockString /t REG_SZ /d

"Hewlett-Packard”

If prompted to overwrite the registry string, choose Yes.

2.Enable the Hyper-V server role using Server Manager.

3.Map HP branded or non HP branded Windows Server® 2008 R2 wSP1 or HP-branded Windows Server 2012\HP-branded Windows Server 2012 R2 operating system media to the virtual machine created and start the operating system installation.

Installation on VMware Virtual machines

1.For installation and configuring VMware on Windows® 2008 R2 wSP1 Standard or Windows® 2012 Standard\Windows® 2012 R2 Standard, see the VMware documentation.

2.After creating a Virtual machine, go to the path where it is created and open the <VM guest name>.vmx file with note pad and add the following line:

smbios.ReflectHost = "TRUE"

3.Save and close the file.

4.Map HP branded Windows® OS Media to the virtual machine created and start OS installation.

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