I activated mine with Windows 10 license linked to my MS account. You can download and install it free but you still need to activate it which is not free. It has been possible since Parallels 17.1.1 was released on Nov 30th 2021 ( How to install Windows 11 (retail version) ). Let’s hope that this announcements kicks VMware in the pants to finish what they’ve started with Windows 11 on ARM.Įasy direct download of Windows 11 ARM from Parallels has been available for weeks (months?) What changed now with MS blessing? Is it still free? There are some workarounds for these, but they’re not equivalent to what you get in Parallels. The biggest deficiency that VMware has is that they don’t have a full VMware Tools implementation for Windows 11 ARM to give you things like copy/paste and shared folders. 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. Obviously, this requires both an Internet connection as well as a subscription to the Microsoft 365 Business Cloud PC service, which starts at $31 a month per user.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. You can then connect your Mac to a Microsoft server, where you can run a cloud-based version of Windows 11. The other authorized solution for Windows 11 on Macs is to sign up for Microsoft 365. That includes not being able to run Windows apps or games that use DirectX 12 or OpenG元.3, along with no support for the Android or Linux Subsystems. In a separate FAQ section, Microsoft points out the many limitations of running Windows 11 Arm on these Macs. You will have to use Parallels Desktop version 18, which first launched back in August 2022. The first official solution is specifically for the Arm-based versions of Windows 11 Pro and Windows 11 Enterprise and only for Apple's M1 and M2 Mac PCs in a VM (virtual hardware) mode. One is to use Parallels Desktop, and the other is to connect your Mac to Microsoft 365's Cloud PC feature with Windows 11. If you really, really, want to install Windows 11 on a Mac, Microsoft is now giving you a couple of officially approved solutions.
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