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Disable driver signing in Vista 64bit

Posted: 03-10-2008, 10:51 PM
I am trying to get VMware Server running on my Vista Enterprise 64bit
machine. The install goes along fine until the very end where Windows
complains about 5 drivers as being 'unsigned'. In previous versions of
Windows I could simply tell the install to go ahead and all would be fine.

Apparently the 64bit version of Vista isn't so accommodating.

Is there a way I can spoof these drivers so that Vista thinks they are
signed (simply turn this off)?



And yes, VMWare knows about this problem. They don't seem concerned as
they simply say "VMware Server is not supported on Vista. You have to
pay for Workstation instead". Assinine as Server is supported on
virtually everything else (including WinXP, 2003, every flavor of Linux,
etc).

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