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Hello all, this question isn't strictly Delphi related but rather Windows 11 / VMWare Workstation related. I develop under Windows 10 X64 in a VMWare virtual machine. I'd like to migrate this VM to Windows 11 but there are a few things that currently make this unfeasible IMHO: - before adding a virtual TPM module, VMWare insists on encrypting all virtual hard drives (*.vmdk files) of the VM. - The encryption key contains information of the host machine. The drives will only decrypt on the same host machine. - So if my notebook dies, I'm basically scr##ed because the VM won't run anywhere else. That's totally unacceptible to me. The whole purpose of virtualization is having virtual hardware so the VM's are independent of the host hardware and its life span. A backup of a VM shouldn't be worthless if my hardware breaks! I currently have VM's that were created on at least 3 different machines and they still run fine, thanks to a vmx entry uuid.action= "keep" that tells VMWare to maintain the machine identity even if the VM is moved to a different machine. So... What gives? Is there a viable workaround for this problem? I know about the undocumented managedvm.autoAddVTPM="software" vmx entry but let me warn you, that has dire side effects: instead of encrypting the vmdk files as a whole it will just encrypt the header area of the vmdk files. That is even worse because you can't undo it - the decryption password isn't revealed. And it's not documented if this header encryption is machine dependent or not.