Another possibility.... If you have SLIC 2.3 your machine BIOS that VMWare Workstation is running on, you can add 3 lines to your <VM name>.vmx file and it will pass through the SLIC from your hardware BIOS... acpi.passthru.slic = "TRUE" acpi.passthru.slicvendor = "TRUE" SMBIOS.reflecthost = "TRUE"
Andrews have you actually tried this ? if I remember there was a discussion thread before and it did not work.
As far as I can tell it did.... I have a Dell T5500 SLIC 2.3. Used it in vmware 11 and 12 with Windows Loader 2.2.2 to load the certs into the OS - it said SLIC 2.3 in Windows Loader...
Had to build a few VMs today, so built them a box I know has an OEM SLIC (v2.1) in the BIOS, added the three lines from above to the .vmx and both activated perfectly. Can't see why it wouldn't still work with SLIC v2.3.
Just to clarify on my understanding: I'm running Vmware workstation 11 with a vmware BIOS build 397 (guest is win 7). Would I need a BIOS Build 429 to run Vmware 12? If so, could someone compile an ASUS SLIC bios that I can integrate with a resource manager?
I would prefer a modified vmware-vmx.exe because I'm running some encrypted VMs. One can't edit a vmx file as long as a vm is running encrypted.