**Setting Up Windows 11 for ARM with VMware Fusion**

Just don't want any of that. It's up to you if you want to do that, but this is how I like to do it all right. So go ahead and click accept. Okay, and again this portion does take a little bit of time. I've sped this up so we can get through it as quickly as possible, and here you are at the Windows desktop now. You'll notice with the start menu open, you'll see some icons there like File Explorer and Clock. These are all default icons but the other icons are actually missing because these icons require an internet connection which we don't yet have because we don't have the proper drivers installed for network connectivity or for display. So you can see all those blank icons there.

But we're going to fix that right up in the start menu search box at the top, you want to type in Powershell. So let's go ahead and do that. Powershell like that, and on the right side, you want to click run as administrator and then when prompt it click yes. So this opens up the Powershell prompt and now you want to type the following set-execution policy space remote signed like that. Press return and then I just type in a for yes to all as far as accepting the policy changes. So press return, and then you can type exit return to exit out of Powershell.

Now what that does is it allows us to install VMware tools previously you wouldn't be able to do this. So you want to go up to Virtual Machine in the menu bar, click install VMware tools, click install and this will Mount VMware tools so just give it a second, you'll see a little prompt here now. You can open up Windows Explorer, go to your DVD drive which is where you'll find VMware tools and all the necessary drivers. So right click on setup select run with Powershell and when prompted click yes.

And this is going to run VMware tools and install both the display driver and the network driver so first up I believe it's going to install yes the vmxnet 3 driver package so that's your network driver, and now it installs the display driver. So you can just press any key to continue to exit out of VMware tools.

And that's it, now we can just close the Windows Explorer now you can see all the icons there because we have an internet connection and we also have display support. I'm going to go full screen and we're going to go to the start menu, go to settings, and click display. Now previously you were stuck at 1024 by 768 you couldn't change that but now we have more options. So we'll go 4K here so there we go.

The next thing I like to do is just go down into our downloads folder, Purge some of the things we have here if you want to keep that ISO you can certainly I think it's a good idea just to hang on to it but you can go ahead and delete the install Parallels Desktop and the VMware Fusion installer as well. And if you go to your user folder you'll find in there parallels, we're going to unmount those as well but you'll see parallels there and you can delete that whole parallels folder if you're not using a virtual machine there that's going to save you a little bit of space.

And I'm just going to uninstall Parallels completely using App cleaner, so go ahead and remove just like that. So well let's go ahead and get rid of this guy too, and we'll empty the trash all right so let's go back to VMware Fusion.

The Windows update is almost complete, and it will ask us to restart but just want to reiterate that parallels is going to be a better option if you're gaming because there's 3D acceleration support Direct X11 support whereas here with vmw Fusion you don't have any of that support. Uh and it's not going to run games nearly as well as parallels but that being said if you're just looking to run a one-off application, you're not gaming, you're just running software without a lot of graphical demand then this is probably going to work pretty good.

And it's going to save you some coin in the process because outside of the windows uh activation and and purchasing a Windows license if you choose to do that this is free. And free is good right. So let me know what you guys think down below in the comment section.

**Using VMware Fusion for a Free Alternative to Parallels**

If you're looking for an alternative to Parallels, VMware Fusion is another option that allows you to run Windows on your Mac without having to purchase or install Windows separately. However, it's worth noting that VMware Fusion does not offer 3D acceleration support like Parallels, which means that gaming performance may be affected.

**Setting Up and Customizing Windows 11 for ARM**

To set up Windows 11 for ARM with VMware Fusion, follow these steps:

1. Install VMware Fusion on your Mac.

2. Download the Windows 11 ISO file from Microsoft's website.

3. Mount the ISO file in VMware Fusion.

4. Follow the on-screen instructions to install Windows 11 for ARM.

**Tips and Tricks**

* Make sure you have a valid license key for Windows 11 before installing it with VMware Fusion.

* Be aware that some applications may not work properly or at all when run in Windows 11 for ARM mode.

* Consider using Parallels if you plan to do heavy gaming or require advanced features like 3D acceleration.

**Troubleshooting Common Issues**

* If you encounter issues with VMware Fusion, try restarting the application and reinstalling it.

* Check that your Mac meets the system requirements for running Windows 11 for ARM mode.

* If you're experiencing issues with applications not working properly in Windows 11 for ARM mode, try checking the application's compatibility settings.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhow's it going folks Jeff Benjamin with 9 to5 Mac in this video I'm going to show you how to install Windows 11 forarm on Apple silicon Max using VMware Fusion player and the cool thing about this is that VMware Fusion player comes with a free personal license so there's no subscription fees at all and also in this video I'm going to show you how much easier it is to obtain the windows 11 for arm ISO it's nowhere near as complicated as it used to be with that said if you're looking to game on your Mac with your virtual machine you probably still want to stick with parallels because it includes directx11 support so without further Ado let's go ahead and get started thanks for watching 9 to5 Mac be sure to Thumbs Up Click the Subscribe button and then enable notifications with the Bell icon so you won't miss any upcoming videos so the very first step is to download the windows 11 for arm ISO and I know it's weird but to do that we're actually going to download the free trial for Parallels Desktop 18 from Mac so go ahead and do that first now we're not using paral as a virtual machine we're actually just using it to acquire the necessary Windows 11 for arm ISO so click on the dis image to mount it double click on install Parallels Desktop click open you can uncheck participating customer experience and then click accept and it will download and install Parallels Desktop 18 from Mac so now it's installing and you'll need to enter your administrator password so do that and click okay now it's initializing and in just a second you should see parallel starting up and you should see this right here download and install Windows 11 now if you don't see this you may see something like this either way you can just click get Windows 11 from Microsoft click continue you'll get back to this page and then click install Windows so what this is going to do is it's going to download that ISO and place it directly into your downloads folder and let me tell you this is so much easier than the methods we used to have to employ in order to get a Windows 11 ISO so it's validating and in just a second you'll see that ISO file appear in your downloads folder and there it is so now we're done with Parallels for this tutorial so you can just go up to the menu bar select Windows 11 quit Windows 11 and then you can actually just close out of parallels all together so we'll just quit and there we go we're done with Parallels for this tutorial all we needed it for was to get that Windows 11 ISO that you see right here okay so the next step is to install VMware Fusion so that we can use it to install Windows 11 for arm and we're actually going to use the VMware Fusion 13 player and the reason is that this gives you a free personal use license so no subscriptions which is completely free to use if you're using it for personal reasons which is super awesome so you do need a VMware account go ahead and log into that account and under license and download be sure to register for the personal use license I've already done that but doing so will give you a license key which I have blurred out and then you'll also see under the download packages manual download so just go ahead and click manually download to start the VMware Fusion download so it may be a good idea to just go ahead and copy that license key because we're going to need to enter that in once we install VMware Fusion player all right so there is the image file we go ahead and mount that image and now you should see this just double click here and now click open and then next it will request your administrator password go ahead and enter that and click okay and it's initializing and you get the Ula go ahead and click agree and then paste in the free personal use license key just like that and click continue so there you go now you have bware Fusion 13 player ready to go free of charge no subscriptions and now we're ready to install Windows 11 for all arm so on this page the select the installation method page all you need to do is drag the windows ISO directly to that page so here it is in our downloads folder just go ahead and grab that guy and drag it up there and drop it so there we go so click continue now for choose firmware type keep it on yui and click continue for choose encryption click where it says Auto generate password make sure you have it stored in your keychain click continue and now click custom ciz settings and you can use the name it provides there to save your virtual machine just go ahead and click save and now you're going to see the configuration page here so just go ahead and click processors and you can configure your processors you can configure your memory that's going to be up to you however you want to configure that all right so let's go ahead and close out of the settings and now we'll click our play button and then you want to go ahead and press any key once prompted to boot from that image and there we go so now it's booting up into Windows setup so we'll just give it just a second and now we see the language and time and currency format stuff just go ahead and click next there once you configure it to your liking then click install now and setup will begin okay so on activate Windows I'm going to select I don't have a product key right now if you do have one go ahead and enter that in and then choose your operating system in this case I'm just going to choose Windows 11 home not only is the license for that cheaper but home does pretty much everything I needed to do so click next and then click the little check mark to accept license terms and click next again then click where it says custom install Windows choose your unallocated space and click next and now it's going to install Windows copying all the files getting files ready for installation installing features installing updates and then finishing up eventually you'll be prompted to restart in which case you can just wait for it to automatically restart or click restart start now let's go ahead and click restart now okay so I've sped this up just a little bit this will take a little bit of time to get through on your end now Windows setup does require an internet connection but because the necessary drivers aren't yet installed we have to bypass that so that's what we're going to do right now so you want to on this screen press shift plus F10 or function shift F10 if you're using a Macbook or magic keyboard you'll see this command prompt pop up and now you want to type in the following o o b back slash bypass nro o just like that and press return on your keyboard it will reboot and this allows you to bypass the network requirement during the setup so you want to choose your country or region and click yes choose your keyboard input method click yes you can skip the second layout and now you can choose I don't have internet previously if we didn't bypass this you wouldn't be able to continue through here at all so you want to continue with limited setup and now you can just type in your name for your user and click next and then you can enter a password but that's an option and then click next so now I want to uncheck all these little privacy settings I just don't want any of that it's up to you if you want to do that but this is how I like to do it all right so go ahead and click accept Okay and again this portion does take a little bit of time I've sped this up so we can get through it as quickly as possible and here you are at the Windows desktop now you'll notice with the start menu open you you'll see some icons there like file explorer and clock these are all default icons but the other icons are actually missing because these icons require an internet connection which we don't yet have because we don't have the proper drivers installed for network connectivity or for display so you can see all those blank icons there but we're going to fix that right up in the start menu search box at the top you want to type in Powershell so let's go ahead and do that Powershell like that and then on the right side you want to click run as administrator and then when prompt it click yes so this opens up the Powershell prompt and now you want to type the following set- execution policy space remote signed like that press return and then I just type in a for yes to all as far as accepting the policy changes so press return and then you can type exit return to exit out of Powershell now what that does it allows us to install VMware tools previously you wouldn't be able to do this so you want to go up to Virtual Machine in the menu bar click install VMware tools click install and this will Mount VMware tools so just give it a second you'll see a little prompt here now you can open up Windows Explorer go to your DVD drive which is where you'll find VMware tools and all the necessary driers so right click on setup select run with Powershell and when prompted click yes and this is going to run VMware tools and install both the display driver and the network driver so first up I believe it's going to install yes the vmxnet 3 driver package so that's your network driver and now it installs the display driver so you can just press any key to continue to exit out of VMware tools and that's it now we can just close the windows Explorer now you can see all the icons there because we have an internet connection and we also have display support so I'm going to go full screen and we're going to go to the start menu go to settings and click display now previously you were stuck at 1024 by 768 you couldn't change that but now we have more options so we'll go 4K here so there we go so the next thing I like to do is just go go to system and then click Windows update and make sure you download all the latest updates that'll take a while but we we'll speed through that here as well so folks that's pretty much it we have Windows 11 for arm running on VMware Fusion thanks to parallels oddly enough and the nice thing about having a Windows Virtual Machine you can quickly switch between Mac and windows just by swiping between the two full screens like that now we can also go down into our downloads folder and Purge some of the things we have here if you want to keep that ISO you can certainly I think it's a good idea just to hang on to it but you can go ahead and delete the install Parallels Desktop and the VMware Fusion installer as well and if you go to your user folder you'll find in there parallels we just going to unmount those as well but you'll see parallels there and you can delete that whole parallels folder if you're not using a virtual machine there that's going to save you a little bit of space and I'm just going to uninstall Parallels completely using App cleaner just go ahead and remove just like that so well let's go ahead and get rid of this guy too and we'll empty the trash all right so let's go back to VMware Fusion so the Windows update is almost complete and it will ask us to restart but just want to reiterate that parallels is going to be a better option if you're gaming because there's 3D acceleration support direct X11 support whereas here with vmw Fusion you don't have any of that support uh and it's not going to run games nearly as well as parallels but that being said if you're just looking to run a one-off application you're not gaming you're just running software without a lot of graphical demand then this is probably going to work pretty good and it's going to save you some coin in the process because outside of the windows uh activation and and purchasing a Windows license if you choose to do that this is free and free is good right let me know what you guys think Down Below in the comment section this is Jeff B Min with 9 to5 Mac and be sure to check out these other videos for morehow's it going folks Jeff Benjamin with 9 to5 Mac in this video I'm going to show you how to install Windows 11 forarm on Apple silicon Max using VMware Fusion player and the cool thing about this is that VMware Fusion player comes with a free personal license so there's no subscription fees at all and also in this video I'm going to show you how much easier it is to obtain the windows 11 for arm ISO it's nowhere near as complicated as it used to be with that said if you're looking to game on your Mac with your virtual machine you probably still want to stick with parallels because it includes directx11 support so without further Ado let's go ahead and get started thanks for watching 9 to5 Mac be sure to Thumbs Up Click the Subscribe button and then enable notifications with the Bell icon so you won't miss any upcoming videos so the very first step is to download the windows 11 for arm ISO and I know it's weird but to do that we're actually going to download the free trial for Parallels Desktop 18 from Mac so go ahead and do that first now we're not using paral as a virtual machine we're actually just using it to acquire the necessary Windows 11 for arm ISO so click on the dis image to mount it double click on install Parallels Desktop click open you can uncheck participating customer experience and then click accept and it will download and install Parallels Desktop 18 from Mac so now it's installing and you'll need to enter your administrator password so do that and click okay now it's initializing and in just a second you should see parallel starting up and you should see this right here download and install Windows 11 now if you don't see this you may see something like this either way you can just click get Windows 11 from Microsoft click continue you'll get back to this page and then click install Windows so what this is going to do is it's going to download that ISO and place it directly into your downloads folder and let me tell you this is so much easier than the methods we used to have to employ in order to get a Windows 11 ISO so it's validating and in just a second you'll see that ISO file appear in your downloads folder and there it is so now we're done with Parallels for this tutorial so you can just go up to the menu bar select Windows 11 quit Windows 11 and then you can actually just close out of parallels all together so we'll just quit and there we go we're done with Parallels for this tutorial all we needed it for was to get that Windows 11 ISO that you see right here okay so the next step is to install VMware Fusion so that we can use it to install Windows 11 for arm and we're actually going to use the VMware Fusion 13 player and the reason is that this gives you a free personal use license so no subscriptions which is completely free to use if you're using it for personal reasons which is super awesome so you do need a VMware account go ahead and log into that account and under license and download be sure to register for the personal use license I've already done that but doing so will give you a license key which I have blurred out and then you'll also see under the download packages manual download so just go ahead and click manually download to start the VMware Fusion download so it may be a good idea to just go ahead and copy that license key because we're going to need to enter that in once we install VMware Fusion player all right so there is the image file we go ahead and mount that image and now you should see this just double click here and now click open and then next it will request your administrator password go ahead and enter that and click okay and it's initializing and you get the Ula go ahead and click agree and then paste in the free personal use license key just like that and click continue so there you go now you have bware Fusion 13 player ready to go free of charge no subscriptions and now we're ready to install Windows 11 for all arm so on this page the select the installation method page all you need to do is drag the windows ISO directly to that page so here it is in our downloads folder just go ahead and grab that guy and drag it up there and drop it so there we go so click continue now for choose firmware type keep it on yui and click continue for choose encryption click where it says Auto generate password make sure you have it stored in your keychain click continue and now click custom ciz settings and you can use the name it provides there to save your virtual machine just go ahead and click save and now you're going to see the configuration page here so just go ahead and click processors and you can configure your processors you can configure your memory that's going to be up to you however you want to configure that all right so let's go ahead and close out of the settings and now we'll click our play button and then you want to go ahead and press any key once prompted to boot from that image and there we go so now it's booting up into Windows setup so we'll just give it just a second and now we see the language and time and currency format stuff just go ahead and click next there once you configure it to your liking then click install now and setup will begin okay so on activate Windows I'm going to select I don't have a product key right now if you do have one go ahead and enter that in and then choose your operating system in this case I'm just going to choose Windows 11 home not only is the license for that cheaper but home does pretty much everything I needed to do so click next and then click the little check mark to accept license terms and click next again then click where it says custom install Windows choose your unallocated space and click next and now it's going to install Windows copying all the files getting files ready for installation installing features installing updates and then finishing up eventually you'll be prompted to restart in which case you can just wait for it to automatically restart or click restart start now let's go ahead and click restart now okay so I've sped this up just a little bit this will take a little bit of time to get through on your end now Windows setup does require an internet connection but because the necessary drivers aren't yet installed we have to bypass that so that's what we're going to do right now so you want to on this screen press shift plus F10 or function shift F10 if you're using a Macbook or magic keyboard you'll see this command prompt pop up and now you want to type in the following o o b back slash bypass nro o just like that and press return on your keyboard it will reboot and this allows you to bypass the network requirement during the setup so you want to choose your country or region and click yes choose your keyboard input method click yes you can skip the second layout and now you can choose I don't have internet previously if we didn't bypass this you wouldn't be able to continue through here at all so you want to continue with limited setup and now you can just type in your name for your user and click next and then you can enter a password but that's an option and then click next so now I want to uncheck all these little privacy settings I just don't want any of that it's up to you if you want to do that but this is how I like to do it all right so go ahead and click accept Okay and again this portion does take a little bit of time I've sped this up so we can get through it as quickly as possible and here you are at the Windows desktop now you'll notice with the start menu open you you'll see some icons there like file explorer and clock these are all default icons but the other icons are actually missing because these icons require an internet connection which we don't yet have because we don't have the proper drivers installed for network connectivity or for display so you can see all those blank icons there but we're going to fix that right up in the start menu search box at the top you want to type in Powershell so let's go ahead and do that Powershell like that and then on the right side you want to click run as administrator and then when prompt it click yes so this opens up the Powershell prompt and now you want to type the following set- execution policy space remote signed like that press return and then I just type in a for yes to all as far as accepting the policy changes so press return and then you can type exit return to exit out of Powershell now what that does it allows us to install VMware tools previously you wouldn't be able to do this so you want to go up to Virtual Machine in the menu bar click install VMware tools click install and this will Mount VMware tools so just give it a second you'll see a little prompt here now you can open up Windows Explorer go to your DVD drive which is where you'll find VMware tools and all the necessary driers so right click on setup select run with Powershell and when prompted click yes and this is going to run VMware tools and install both the display driver and the network driver so first up I believe it's going to install yes the vmxnet 3 driver package so that's your network driver and now it installs the display driver so you can just press any key to continue to exit out of VMware tools and that's it now we can just close the windows Explorer now you can see all the icons there because we have an internet connection and we also have display support so I'm going to go full screen and we're going to go to the start menu go to settings and click display now previously you were stuck at 1024 by 768 you couldn't change that but now we have more options so we'll go 4K here so there we go so the next thing I like to do is just go go to system and then click Windows update and make sure you download all the latest updates that'll take a while but we we'll speed through that here as well so folks that's pretty much it we have Windows 11 for arm running on VMware Fusion thanks to parallels oddly enough and the nice thing about having a Windows Virtual Machine you can quickly switch between Mac and windows just by swiping between the two full screens like that now we can also go down into our downloads folder and Purge some of the things we have here if you want to keep that ISO you can certainly I think it's a good idea just to hang on to it but you can go ahead and delete the install Parallels Desktop and the VMware Fusion installer as well and if you go to your user folder you'll find in there parallels we just going to unmount those as well but you'll see parallels there and you can delete that whole parallels folder if you're not using a virtual machine there that's going to save you a little bit of space and I'm just going to uninstall Parallels completely using App cleaner just go ahead and remove just like that so well let's go ahead and get rid of this guy too and we'll empty the trash all right so let's go back to VMware Fusion so the Windows update is almost complete and it will ask us to restart but just want to reiterate that parallels is going to be a better option if you're gaming because there's 3D acceleration support direct X11 support whereas here with vmw Fusion you don't have any of that support uh and it's not going to run games nearly as well as parallels but that being said if you're just looking to run a one-off application you're not gaming you're just running software without a lot of graphical demand then this is probably going to work pretty good and it's going to save you some coin in the process because outside of the windows uh activation and and purchasing a Windows license if you choose to do that this is free and free is good right let me know what you guys think Down Below in the comment section this is Jeff B Min with 9 to5 Mac and be sure to check out these other videos for more\n"