UEFI instead of BIOS for Developer VMs - Testing EDGE and Application Defender Application Guard

[albatross666]

UEFI is not the method chosen for VMs provided to test EDGE, so features like Application Defender Application Guard CANNOT be tested.

There are a few VMs available to download to test Edge … https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/tools/vms/ …

The VMWare images for the latest Windows image uses BIOS, so Application Defender Application Guard CANNOT be tested.

Can UEFI versions for VMWare be also provided for testing?
Thanks!

[molant]

I've been doing a bit of research and it seems the way to achieve this will be to add these sections (might have to find a more up to date documentation) in this part of the template

I'll see if I have time to test this on the falls creator update, will be nice to have it before the next insider.

Thanks @albatross666

[molant]

At the same time we do this, we should enable Gen2 VMs for HyperV for the same purpose.
Some information on how to do this in this PR https://github.com/StefanScherer/packer-windows/pull/71/files

I should start on this sometime next week.

[molant]

@albatross666 The latest insider should be generated using UEFI and not BIOS. Changes aren't uploaded in the repo yet because I I still need to figure out how to share in the best way the configurations for different machines.