Vmware fusion m1 mac windows how to#
Vmware fusion m1 mac windows install#
Vmware fusion m1 mac windows upgrade#

W11 requires an UEFI BIOS, encryption of it, and adding a special item called “Trusted Platform Module” It also requires you remove all your Snapshots to do this.

Vmware fusion m1 mac windows upgrade#

You cannot upgrade a W10 licensed Windows to W11 with the free Fusion 13 Player, the personal free version of Fusion, if you are running the Legacy BIOS version of W10 which is highly likely. They will not issue a product key to you if you have a licensed W10 and wish to start fresh with a new virtual machine running W11 unless you pay µsoft $200 for a new Windows Pro license. Here are the experiences, issues and tips.Īfter several days of talking to Microsoft (µsoft) support, for a working product key, with multiple transfers, being hung up on multiple times and failed commitments to call me back, they finally revealed to me that the only way for a W10 free upgrade to W11 is to upgrade an existing licensed version.

After much anguish I finely got a working licensed version running under Fusion 13 Player. I have literally spent days trying to get a transition to Windows 11 (W11) from an existing W10 legitimate and properly licensed upgrade from a much older version. My Windows 11 Upgrade Using Fusion 13 Journey Continues: Make a copy of that Windows VM before attempting the upgrade to Windows 11. Your existing Windows 10 product key should activate Windows 11. But… there are Windows things you are going to need to do before switching the Fusion firmware to UEFI. If you don’t have the VM running with UEFI firmware, you’re going to need to change that - secure boot doesn’t work with BIOS firmware. Just choose the encryption option to encrypt only the parts of the VM that support the vTPM device. That way you do not have to encrypt the entire VM to enable the TPM device.

Vmware fusion m1 mac windows how to#

Also, I’m not sure if the Windows 10 product key will work or how to get a new one if it does not as my upgrade to Windows 10 from my previous version was free and easy.

Vmware fusion m1 mac windows install#

Either that or encrypt the Windows 10, install the TPM and then install Windows 11 to it from the ISO. I am guessing that either you have to make a new Virtual Windows 11 then somehow migrate your info over to it.

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