In my case, I already created a folder in my Virtual Machines folder where I moved the VMDK to.

Next step is to add the converted disk to the VM. This way the VM will boot without prompting for a password, but if it is copied to another MacBook you will have to input the password to startup the VM. The best option here is to auto-generate a password and store it in the Mac’s Keychain. The next step is to encrypt the disk (because of the TPM requirements of Windows 11).

Next up is the boot firmware, this must be secure because Windows 11 needs this to correctly install. Select Microsoft Windows and choose the Windows 11 64-bit Arm OS. Choose: create a custom virtual machine (because you have to add the newly created VMware disk). qemu-img convert -p -O vmdk “Windows11_InsiderPreview_Client_ARM64_en-us_22598.VHDX” windows11.vmdkĪfter this, create a new vm in VMware Fusion. You also need at least 10 GB of free disk space to accommodate the image’s conversion. Just to let you know, you need to run this with the correct directory formatting. You can to this by typing these commands: brew install qemuĪfter installing qemu you can run this command to convert the image from VHDX to VMDK. Installing Homebrew is really easy and you can follow the instructions on the website.Īfter installing Homebrew you need to install the Qemu-img tooling on your Mac. To fix this you need to convert the image using the Qemu-img tooling you can install this on a Windows machine but if you have a Mac you can use Homebrew. Problem with this image is, it is in VHDX format, which runs fine on (client) Hyper-V on Windows machines but you can’t import it directly into VMware Fusion. You may need to register for the Windows insider program to retrieve the image.

Next up download the latest version of the Windows 11 ARM preview here. In this post, I’ll explain how to get through the first steps and how to fix the issue of no network during setup!įirst off I’ll assume you have VMware Fusion 13 installed on your mac device. So for us Mac users we have now run Windows on our mac. Recently VMware released VMware Fusion 13 which also runs on Apple Silicon.

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