We’re thrilled that Microsoft has finally lifted the veil of uncertainty around Windows on Arm, but more importantly we’re immensely grateful for the community of VMware Fusion users who have been with us along this journey. With Fusion 13 and beyond customers can rest easy knowing that they can deploy Arm-based Windows and Linux virtual machines on Mac computers with Apple silicon, at any scale, with the full weight of VMware’s support behind it.įrom individual users to gargantuan enterprise desktop rollouts, we’re standing behind our commitment to delivering the worlds leading Windows, Linux and BSD on Mac experience to desktop and notebook Macs with Apple silicon for now and into the foreseeable future. What does this mean for VMware customers? Freely available for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and Solaris x86 platforms under GPLv3: Platform, 64-bit. Combining this with today’s announcement from Microsoft, who is also an Arm System Ready certification partner, the foundation for improved support and more innovation for Windows on Mac computers with Apple silicon is here and we couldn’t be more excited about it. Our system ready certification is a meaningful step in providing a high-performance, universal, stable platform for developers to ensure compatibility across the wide range of emerging Arm-based devices. Users can build applications and more that are destined for a physical device before even having one by using a virtual machine on Apple silicon with Fusion.Ĭheck out our official certification document here This means that an Operating System that is certified as System Ready will also be able to be ran in a Virtual Machine on VMware Fusion for Apple silicon, as well as other System Ready certified hardware. in certifying VMware Fusion 13 with the Arm System Ready certification program.Īrm System Ready is a certification program offered by Arm that ensures platform compatibility across physical and virtual hardware environments. Instead, we used this time to work with Arm, Inc. While things have been a tad slower than we were hoping to see on the Windows on Mac computers with Apple silicon front, we haven’t been just resting. With millions of worldwide Fusion installations and growing, the momentum for users needing a desktop or laptop solution that is compatible with the Arm ecosystem isn’t slowing down any time soon. Going forward we’ll be able to get insight and development guidance directly from Microsoft to help us leapfrog the competition and deliver the type of Windows-on-Mac experience that our users would expect from the worlds leader in virtualization. With today’s announcement from Microsoft, we’re thrilled to finally be able move full-speed ahead in offering world-class support for Windows on Mac computers with Apple silicon with VMware Fusion via a new partner program to help us along the journey. While we’re proud that we delivered multiple new technologies such as Fast Encryption, a new Virtual Trusted Platform Module, re-built network adapter and other device drivers, and more, we’re still left with some items that need work. We're awaiting VMware to close the gaps by delivering a full VMware Tools on Windows 11 ARM.Windows 11 on Arm running on a Mac Studio computer with Apple siliconĮxciting news out of Redmond today as Microsoft has expressed commitment to fully support Windows on Arm in virtual machines on Apple hardware.Īfter years of development and effort to make Fusion support Windows on Arm _without_ explicit support, and even in the face of ambiguity in several areas, we recently released VMware Fusion 13 with improvements to specifically support Windows on Arm with Fusion on Macs with Apple silicon. Because of the lack of a full VMware Tools implementation for Windows 11 ARM, there are things you'd expect to be there that aren't yet. Some have workarounds, some don't. When the VM starts up, follow the instructions for installing VMware Tools in the VM using the supplied Powershell script.Īlso to please see the Companion document for a list of items that are not supported for Windows 11 ARM virtual machines on Fusion 13. You can fix this by making sure the OS type for the Windows VM is correct, then delete and re-add the virtual network adapter. That will create the virtual network adapter with the wrong virtual NIC type for a Windows 11 virtual machine. One thing to watch out for is if you selected an OS type during the VM creation other than Windows 11 ARM 64-bit. Using these instructions have been shown to reliably enable networking support to a Windows 11 ARM virtual machine created from a converted VHDX file. Please double check your configuration with the instructions in the Unofficial Fusion 13 for Apple Silicon Companion document. May have missed a step in creating or installing the virtual machine from the converted VHDX file.
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