Windows is second priority behind Linux.We don’t plan to support installing or running x86 VMs on Macs with Apple silicon.Development is moving along very well, meeting or exceeding our expectations, but there are challenges and much work still to do.We will be delivering a Tech Preview of VMware Fusion for macOS on Apple silicon this year.The quick readīefore we get right into it, I just want to summarize our position way up front with a quick tl dr: Just use it for playing around with the VMware Fusion product and test Windows 11 arm in your own lab/test environments.It’s been a few months since our informal announcement via Twitter back in November where we committed to delivering VMware VMs on Apple silicon devices, so we wanted to take this opportunity to share a bit about how our progress with our little project to bring Fusion to life on Apple silicon Macs this year. Because VMware and Microsoft do not support this please do not use this in production. In my case it’s configured for NAT translation via the host so you will see a different IP address inside the VM.įor me this was just something I wanted to test. You will be asked by your Mac device that a service would like to monitor traffic and you have to allow it by logging in as admin.Īfter rebooting and logging in you will see your Windows 11 arm VM has a network connection :-). If you need any information about bcdedit, you can read this article: –dbgsettingsĪfter running these commands reboot the VM. This gives the Windows 11 Arm VM connectivity to the host. The command also specifies a port number that the host computer can use to connect to the target computer. What this does is configuring the Windows 11 arm VM to use an Ethernet connection for debugging and specifies the IP address of the host (Mac m1) computer. In CMD type: bcdedit /dbgsettings net hostip: port:yyyyy”
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Open control panel, then select Device Manager:ĭevice Manager > Other Devices > Ethernet Controller > Update Driver > Browse my computer for drivers > Let me pick from a list of available drivers on my computer > Network Adapters > Microsoft > Microsoft Kernel Debug Network Adapter. To fix the connectivity issue you can follow this step by step guide. Shoutout to the guys at Reddit and especially bumwarrior69 for figuring this out, read the thread here. you can only do this when the VM is shut down.Īfter booting the VM and answering some startup questions you are greeted with a Windows 11 interface but without network connectivity. After completion give the VM some extra memory (and CPU cores) to make it work as expected. Choose the Other and then Other 64-bit Arm template Choose to use the existing disk (or you can copy it if you have enough disk space).Ĭlick on finish to complete the configuration. vmdk file to your MacBook and create a new VM inside VMware Fusion. Is the destination format in this case vmdkĪfter that copy the.
for converting VHDX to VMDK you can use a syntax similar to this: qemu-img convert -f vhdx -O vmdk -o adapter_type=lsilogic e:\disk1.vhdx e:\disk1.vmdkĬonvert the image (you can also create, compare, check or commit an image) So you can use Qemu-img to convert the disk to a VMDK.Īfter downloading you can run the tool from inside the unzipped folder.
This is a step by step guide i used to get it running.ĭownload the windows 11 arm template here:ĭefault Microsoft gives you a VHDX file which is not compatible with VMware Fusion (or ESXi for that matter). Short answer yes, but it’s not supported by VMware or Microsoft and network connectivity is an issue. GPU rendering inside the VM is done via the CPU (as far as i can tell from testing with YouTube inside the VM)Ĭan you run Windows 11 inside VMware Fusion?.macOS VMs are not in scope for the short term.VMware isn’t planning on adding support for x86 VMs on Mac with Apple Silicon.
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(because there is no windows ARM license available for use on Apple Silicon) At the moment you can only run Linux OS on VMware Fusion.This works as expected and is blazing fast! It works on macOS Montery and after installation you can create a Linux ARM based VM with You can find more on the roadmap for VMware Fusion on this blog So first things first downloading the beta can be done here So I signed up and this is wat I discovered about the public beta. Via twitter I found that there is a public beta running for VMware Fusion on the m1 chipset and I was really interested in how this would work. I really love the device but found that VMware Fusion wasn’t available for m1 chipset. Recently I switched over from a Windows laptop (x86) to a Apple MacBook Air (m1). In the past I’ve been using VMware Fusion for running a small lab on my laptop for testing etc.
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