They are not that hard to build if you follow the guide in the VMware communities. You then have a retail build ISO which when installed is kept up to date with Windows Update just like a “real” ARM or Intel PC running Windows 11. There is a document in the VMware Fusion Documents forum that walks you through the process of building those ISOs on either Windows or macOS. I prefer using Retail Channel ISOs that can be only be built right now from. I don’t bother with the Windows Insider VHDX files and converting them. Parallels hacked their way around that.īy the way, I’m curious - what build and release channel of Windows 11 is Parallels making available for ARM? The Insider Preview releases that you get as VHDX files are either Dev or Beta channels - not even Release Preview I use Windows 11 ARM running under VMware Fusion on Apple Silicon and have done so for over a year and a half through the early days of their first Tech Preview. VMware isn’t to blame that there’s not an ISO for Windows 11 ARM like there is for Intel 圆4… That’s on Microsoft. I’m running Windows 11 ARM activated with a retail license. If you want to follow the letter of the law, Windows 11 (and allegedly Windows 10) retail licenses will activate Windows 11 ARM. Microsoft is not enforcing activation of Windows 11 with a license. Windows was never “free”, even though it would run without activating it with a license. “Official support” means you can go to Microsoft if you have a problem. Microsoft did not officially support Windows 11 on Apple Silicon before this announcement. It’s now officially a supported configuration. So yeah, ease of installation is one of the things you get with Parallels Desktop, which can download Windows 11 on Arm directly from Microsoft. VHDX file to a VMware-compatible VMDK file using separately downloaded Qemu software, create a virtual machine using that disk file, and then continue to install new beta builds as they’re available so that the build you’re using doesn’t expire. You need to download a Hyper-V disk image of a Windows 11 beta build from Microsoft’s Windows Insider site, convert the. This means jumping through lots of extra hoops to get Windows installed in VMware Fusion in the first place, since you can’t simply download an ISO file as you can for the x86 version of Windows. As Ars Technica said back when the capability arrived: I strongly suspect it’s possible, but in the end, there were too many hoops to jump through with Homebrew and QEMU and converting massive disk images. I had two of my eight days per year when I have to run Windows software (HyTek Meet Manager for track meets) this weekend, so I thought I might try to get Windows 11 on Arm working in the free VMware Fusion 13 Player.
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