

Open UTM on the Mac, then click the + plus button to create a new virtual machineĤ.Click the “Browse” button and select the Windows 11 VHDX ARM image you downloaded, with “Import Image” selected, then click Nextĥ.Choose the amount of RAM and CPU cores you want to designate to Windows 11 (recommend to give 8GB RAM or more for better performance), then click Next againħ.Now click the big Play button to boot the Windows 11 VM and begin setupĨ.Download the Windows 11 VM for ARM free from Microsoft here (you will need a Windows Insider login for this, which is free to sign up for if you don’t have one already).Here you can Download the UTM app for free, it’s a virtualize and emulator application, and drag to the Applications folder to install it on the Mac or iMac.We’ll be covering how to install, setup, and run Windows 11 ARM on any Apple Silicon Mac, whether it has an M1, M1 Pro, M1 Max, M1 Ultra, or any other M chip does not matter, it will work just fine thanks to the UTM app. To install the required utilities you need to use Homebrew (the package manager for Mac OS).If you want to run Windows 11 on your M1 Mac, you can now do that, and perhaps best of all, you can run Windows 11 in a virtual machine on the M1 Mac entirely for free. You will also need a couple of utilities on MacOS before you can run this script Get utilities and create the Windows 11 ISO file You will need the file: uup_download_macos.sh Once you download the archive, open or extract it on your disk. I used the “Latest Public Release build” -> arm64 Here are my notes on how it worked for me.ĭownload and Install VMware Fusion Public Tech Preview 22H2 from the following link Download Windows 11 installerįor this we will use arm64 version of Windows 11, you can download it from. Changing the card to e1000 type in the vmx file worked, but installing the VMware tools during the installation is a better solution. A virtual machine without network connectivity is pretty useless.

Interesting, but the default Windows 11 does not come with a driver for the vxnet3 network card type. VMware Fusion released the public tech preview 22H2, which supports Windows 11 arm64 on a MacBook Pro M1 processor. Something to think about when buying a new MacBook Pro if you depend on virtualization. Installing Windows on Macs with M1 and VMware Fusion was not working for me.
