Can VMs of any kind imitate physical devices for OS Testing?

Heimdallr 266 Reputation points
2022-01-21T12:17:15.65+00:00

Hi,

I got a question as I couldn't google that one out, I also cannot yet test that on my own and some input could be beneficial - Can I use any type of VM(Vmware, Hyper-V, AVD etc.) And test on it a full build ran from MECM? As far as I'm aware, at least some time ago VMs couldn't imitate the TPM Chip, had problems with WMI, drivers etc, did something change here or for the "Real" test I need an actual physical machine to test bitlocker, drivers and all the rest configurations that are normally used in Task Sequences?

Thanks

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  1. Bagitman 581 Reputation points
    2022-01-21T13:05:49.327+00:00

    Some Hypervisors allow to use a vTPM (virtual): Hyper-v (for Gen2 Machines), vmware workstation and player also ESXI (6.7 and higher) do allow it.
    As for testing drivers: no, in VMs, you cannot test the interaction of real hardware and drivers since most hardware will not be seen by the virtual OS.

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