![]() ![]() This was a very quick tutorial to get people up and running with Windows 11 on M1 Macs using the new VMware Fusion Technical Preview. Can you run Windows 11 inside VMware Fusion. Windows 11 requires at least 4GB of RAM for it to install. If that doesn’t work, search for VMware Fusion Public Tech Preview and follow whatever links make sense. For now, the graphics will be CPU-based as support for GPU-equipped VMs is still under development. Download VMware Fusion 11 and let your Mac run Windows Linux or Mac OS X Server. Step One: Download VMWare You’ll find it at VMware Fusion Public Tech Preview 22H2. VMware Fusion beta for M1 Macs also lacks support for macOS Monterey due to API incompatibilities, and it is unclear if this will be added with a future update. Although you can manually install Windows 10 ARM using VMware Fusion, there will be no official drivers compatible with M1 Macs. This is because Microsoft does not sell official licenses of Windows 10 ARM. I dont know who needs to know, but Debian ARM64 runs in the current VMWare Fusion tech preview on M1 Macs (it didnt work when I tried it some months ago). Probably the most notable limitation is that VMware Fusion will not provide support for running Windows virtual machines on Apple Silicon Macs. However, unlike VMware Fusion for Intel Macs, the Apple Silicon version has some limitations that users need to be aware of. I thought I would get a faster reply here from other users who use Fusion and have an M1 Mac. VMware Fusion and Workstation Manager Michael Roy (via The Register) shared on Twitter the link to an online form for those interested in trying VMWare Fusion beta for Macs M1.Īccording to Roy, a public beta release will be available in about two weeks, which could mean that the official release might come by the end of this year. Now the company is taking its next step in bringing VMWare Fusion to M1 Macs with the first beta release compatible with Apple Silicon.įor now, VMware Fusion for Macs M1 will be available as a closed beta, which means that not everyone can download it. You can then do the normal macOS installer stuff to get Monterey installed.Īnd, at the end, if it all worked out, you should be at Setup Assistant, and able to start customizing and using macOS Monterey.VMware Fusion is one of the most popular hypervisor softwares available for macOS, which allows users to run virtual machines with not only Apple’s operating system, but also Windows and Linux. VMware released a Tech Preview for the Mac version of Fusion on Thursday, which works similarly to Parallels Desktop. It should then boot into the macOS installer. Side note: I don’t know why macOS (or VMware Fusion?) won’t allow you to take a screenshot of this menu being open, so that’s why this “screenshot” looks so awful-it’s really a photo of the screen. Then click Connect Install macOS Monterey. Click the option at the top to select a USB drive to connect. Once your setup of the custom virtual machine is done, go ahead and click the play button to start up your virtual machine. Open VMWare Fusion on your PC (I am using MAC in this demo). Then go ahead and create a new virtual disk. This assumes you have download and ready to install Kali Linux. Then, instead of dragging the installer to Install from disc or image, select Create a custom virtual machine.Īt the moment, you can’t select macOS 12, so just select macOS 11 as a placeholder. Then leave that USB drive connected to the Mac you’re trying to create the Monterey VM in. You’ll see that VMware Fusion is “able to create the installation medium.”Ĭreate a bootable USB of the Monterey installer by following the instructions in How to create a bootable installer for macOS. …except for the fact you can’t select macOS 12 as an option. You’ll try to drag the installer to the Install from disc or image part of the window.Įverything will look as if it’s proceeding as normal… If you try to install Monterey using the traditional method, this is what happens: I would recommend using proper support channels (like the aforementioned VMware Fusion communities online forums) to get actual support if you run into any issues.Īs of the writing of this blog post (22 November, 2021), VMware Fusion doesn’t officially support macOS 12 (Monterey) for VM guests. If it doesn’t work for you, I probably don’t know any better than you do why that’s the case. I’m sharing only a more detailed step-by-step guide of a summary I read, and this is only what worked for me. ![]() Hopefully, these instructions will be obsolete soon in a future update of VMware Fusion (where you can just select macOS 12, drag the installer to the install wizard, and have VMware Fusion do everything for you).These are just more fleshed out steps from a brief overview in the VMware Fusion communities online forums. ![]()
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