
Once you have entered a password and clicked encrypt, you will see the progress bar appear whilst the encryption process completes. (follow the guidance provided in he dialog box). The Encrypt Virtual Machine Dialog will then appear for you to provide a password. Summary steps: Virtual Machine Hardware Settings > Options > Access Control > EncryptĬlick the Encrypt button as shown in the screenshot below The screenshot shows where to enable Virtual Machine encryption (Virtual Machine Settings > Options > Access Control > Encrypt…) You should then see the Access Control setting located halfway down the list of settings. Within the Virtual Machine settings page, select the options tab. In this section we look at enabling VM Encryption for the VMware Workstation VM.

Windows 11 at the time of writing this post is currently launched as an insider preview.
