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Boot and Scan Virtual Machines
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MetaDefender Drive supports booting from and scanning virtual machines. MetaDefender Drive has been tested on the following virtual machine software:
- Hypervisor
- VMWare Workstation (Windows and Linux)
- QEMU Virtual Machine Manager (Linux)
Boot and Scan VMWare Workstation Virtual Machines
The following example is a demonstration of booting your device using VMWare Workstation.
- From VMWare Workstation, open the properties of the virtual machine you want to scan, and setthe firmware to UEFI

- Power On VM to Firmware

- Connect the MetaDefender Drive into the VM

- Enter Boot Setup

- Select Boot from a file

- Find the your MetaDefender Drive device

- Navigate to EFI

- Navigate to Boot

- Navigate to select grubx64.efi and wait until your virtual machine boots up

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