Watched the video - didn't search for it. But it came up in my feed. I have had a Parallels demoversion installed. Uninstalled it after trial. Price is too high for my limited use. When I watched this video, I wasn't home. But I had my macbook air m1 in my bag. Time was 02:00 am. I watched the video. Noted the main points of the very easy installation point. Followed the guide. And within an hour after, I had full working installation of Fusion VMware and Windows 11 pro. Great guide. Great tip. And divine timing. Everything is working THANKS MAN!
For anyone wondering why they cant find the personal use download of the latest version, when you have the dmg open it and eventually it will ask for a product key for professional use however underneath it will be option for personal use, hope this helps
it feels like it's only by chance that I found this video cause I only decided the day you uploaded it that I needed to download windows11 THANK YOU SO MUCH
@@MiggittyMiggz The issue with the Magic Keyboard is not really about the Magic Keyboard. It can apply to ANY keyboard on ANY platform (usually compact keyboards) where the function keys are also media keys and being function keys is not the default. For a keyboard like that, do what he showed and also hold down the Fn key. The Fn key swaps the purpose of the function/media keys. For example, if on a laptop the keys with the F1, F2… labels are actually set to be media keys (brightness, volume…), pressing Fn makes them function keys. If those keys currently work as function keys, pressing Fn makes them work as media keys. So even though he said Magic Keyboard, the Fn key toggle actually applies to all compact keyboards for both laptops and desktops, and not just on Macs.
But not required, just need to choose Work setup(needs to be Pro), then choose Domain Join instead of MS account, will let you setup a local account. Not sure why all these tutorials insist you do the workarounds when you shouldnt need to.... maybe needed for Home edition, but not Pro.
This is the best and easiest method so far, and it's also free. I have tried so many ways install winodes, but this was the quickest way. I recently bought a MacBook and missed my Windows applications, particularly Power BI SQ, L, but this way, I can have both the benefits of Windows and Apple. Thanks.
Thank you for this clip. I've recently purchased my first Mac and since my 9to5 job is only windows based (with some linux servers and VMs for testing) I was forced to get the parallels trail period. I've researched the VM Ware's fusion but I haven't found the intstalation files for it. Thank you for this tutorial
I am stuck on the 'Download Windows 11' stage. It has been 'downloading windows11 esd file from Microsoft' for so long and is stuck. Any idea why this might be happening?
fantastic vid !! step by step easy to follow . Ive been a mac user for ages but somtimes for work I need windows and had to use my parteners pc. thanks a heap !! 😃
Thank you very much. I had the same problem that many comment in the video, the download faded and accumulated unnecessary files in the VM folder. Solution: connect via network cable and retry the win11 download. To me it worked the first time and by wifi I had almost 10 errors. Greetings, I hope it helps someone and again thank you very much, Jeff.
Jeff, Great video! I just clicked *Like* to help me find it again. 😀 It reminds of that great video you did years ago about installing Windows on Intel Macs that got millions of views. I plan to buy my Apple Silicon Mac by December and this will come in really handy since I need to run MadCap Software Flare, which is Windows only.
Thanks for the video. It seems that the procedure changed a bit. Now you download the "non pro" version and when you install you come to a serial number page. On this page you either enter a licence number or you click the "pro for personal use" button. Then the install procedure is identical to your video.
Great video! I got tripped up after hitting the "play" butt in VMW, so for anyone else, remember to click inside the VM Ware window before hitting any key to boot Windows.
This is all great and dandy BUT! When I finished installing windows 11 Pro the display is not fitting my screen size correctly and it won't let me set the correct scale size because its not an activated windows and there is no key, thats the part you dont mention
Having an issue when it comes to getting into the command line (6:20) in the video. Any ideas or others having trouble here? Update - restart the machine and it worked fine. Great video though, thank you!
Thank-you for a well-done video on getting the software, Windows and getting it all to work. I'm going to give it a try on my laptop for a trip. I have gotten this to work before the transition to Broadcom and also got UTM to work but it would be nice to get this set up in case I need Windows. Everything in the video works but I was hoping that shared folders works and I couldn't figure out how to do it. So I'm going back to UTM. Hopefully Broadcom adds this in a future version.
Thank you so much for the video: a great help including the download link, for which I still can't find it on Broadcom pages by myself because the auto update from 13.6.1 to 13.6.2 did not work that I had to download the latest version manually 😓
Not sure why or if it was removed, the Pro version doesn't come up for me.. there is VMware Fusion 13 but not 13 Pro, why would that be? Any help would be appreciated.
i missed the part where in it was mentioned that this is the arm version of windows 11 and thus not 'all' windows app will work contrary to what was mentioned in the last part
already had windows 7 on an earlier version of fusion. updated to fusion 13 pro as you show in the first minutes of the video, but when it comes to select install method (around 2:30) i didn't get a pop up to "get windows from Microsoft". would you have any tips for installation of updated windows under those circumstances?
Excellent video I do have a question. I only need to run one application in windows and I keep a Windows computer just for that but with this application I won’t need to do that for much longer. However I need to know will I be able to access my dropbox From within the virtual machine because I need to access some files for the program that I’m using within Windows thank you very much. Keep up the good work.
Will the free VMWare license allow for USB passthrough? I have a Win only program that requires the ability to communicate with hardware via a USB programming cable.
In the video you install the ARM version of Windows 11. Does VMware provide an emulation of Intel CPUs and support for those Windows versions? That might be nifty to use a larger palette of software than what currently exists for ARM CPUs...
Windows 11 ARM runs something similar to Rosetta 2 to translate x64 code to ARM. If you want to run with emulation, then UTM will do this but I've heard that it's really slow.
@@movdqa Absolutely 💯 true..... I've used it and it's a really bad experience and I don't recommend it. I'm using an M1 MBP with 8GB of RAM & 512 GB SSD.
If i set up a VM on an external Drive, will i be able to use it on another Mac as well? Also, is 8gb of RAM (baseline Macbook Air) sufficient for light tasks in Windows?
Macbook M2, but I'm located outside the US. The installer of VMWare does not work. I keep ending up with an app with 0 bytes. Have tried the a version earlier, that kept running in the Initializing phase forever. So, what can I try next?
Hi, thanks so much for sharing this video and tutorial just had a couple questions so this version of VMware fusion is totally free forever or is it a demo or limited edition also windows 11 is also totally free? And is it full version because parallels I think is $100 and does this work as good? Thanks so much in advance.
Thank you so much. I’m assuming I can still increase the size that I listed for windows to run on? I used an external SSD, but only put like 120 gigs out of my 450 available. Since it’s on my Mac Mini wanna do 4/10 cores for VM and 6-8 gigs for windows.
I highly recommend you choose the right drive size on first setup because when you go to expand it and try to allocate it within Windows it won't work.
Thank you so much Jeff, I’m wondering how many license can this method being used: i.e. if I totally erased my Mac, and buy a new one does this method still work,
I did these steps till the part where I can download the software after providing the address details. It doesn't let me download the software because compares a notification that says "Account verification is Pending. Please try after some time.". It's 2 days that I'm coming back to this part and checking if the download is finally available. I don't know how is it for those who were able to do all the steps in just a few hours.. Am I missing something?
I've used Parallels in the past. I've gotten used to accessing the same files in both macOS and the Windows virtual machine, for example, editing something using Paint on Windows, and being able to put that same file on iMovie on macOS The files doesnt seem to sync anymore. Is there a way to enable file syncing on VMware?
My "Select Installation Method" screen looks very different. I don't have the option to "Get Windows from Microsoft". I see "Install MacOS from recovery partition", "Import an existing virtual machine", "Install from Boot Camp", "Create a custom virtual machine", "create a VM on a remote server". I tried the custom virtual machine option, but ended up creating something that acted like DOS with no Windows. My mac is running Ventura on an Intel i9. Any thoughts?
When I reach the "Select the Installation Method" on VMware setup it doesn't show the option "Get Windows from Microsoft". Anyone knows why? I'm outta US but even using VPN doesn't show the option...
Hello Jeff, I am trying to install Windows 11 on my Intel Mac. I upgraded to VM Fusion 13.5.2. To install Windows I need to have TPM 2.0 in place. To add TPM, I need to Encrypt, and when I try to do that I get a message: 'You do not have enough disk space to perform this operation: You must free up at least 427.6 GB. But, I have nearly 900GB of unused space! Can you please help?'
You don't need to purchase a license, but you will have the watermark on the bottom right corner of the display reminding you that windows is not activated. This restricts some of the customization options (background, some operations on the task bar) but other than that should allow you to still do whatever you need inside the windows environment.
Random problem. When I get a confirmation code on my mail, I have to go into the mail app and then back to safari, then I get the code filled in like you did...
Watched the video - didn't search for it. But it came up in my feed. I have had a Parallels demoversion installed. Uninstalled it after trial. Price is too high for my limited use. When I watched this video, I wasn't home. But I had my macbook air m1 in my bag. Time was 02:00 am. I watched the video. Noted the main points of the very easy installation point. Followed the guide. And within an hour after, I had full working installation of Fusion VMware and Windows 11 pro. Great guide. Great tip. And divine timing. Everything is working THANKS MAN!
Excellent! Excellent! No BS, No annoying music in the background, and in the style of Steve Wozniak ....put it out there for everyone to use.
For anyone wondering why they cant find the personal use download of the latest version, when you have the dmg open it and eventually it will ask for a product key for professional use however underneath it will be option for personal use, hope this helps
I appreciate you
@@Dreamsai_ Thanks bro
I dont see option to download windows 11 ESD. I downloaded version 13.6.1
@@Dat876Bredda same
@@Dat876Bredda same
i was sooo jealous of my friends flexing their parallels vms on me, and then i found this. Works a charm! I subscribed.
it feels like it's only by chance that I found this video cause I only decided the day you uploaded it that I needed to download windows11 THANK YOU SO MUCH
After pulling my hair trying to figure this out, your video saved me!! Super easy to follow and it worked. Tysm for sharing
The tip about how to bypass the Microsoft account login is very helpful. Thank you!
I am unable to get passed this part. Shift + F10 does nothing...im not a magic keyboard...any suggestions?
@@MiggittyMiggz even though it’s not a magic keyboard still try holding the function key while doing shift F10
@@MiggittyMiggz The issue with the Magic Keyboard is not really about the Magic Keyboard. It can apply to ANY keyboard on ANY platform (usually compact keyboards) where the function keys are also media keys and being function keys is not the default. For a keyboard like that, do what he showed and also hold down the Fn key. The Fn key swaps the purpose of the function/media keys.
For example, if on a laptop the keys with the F1, F2… labels are actually set to be media keys (brightness, volume…), pressing Fn makes them function keys. If those keys currently work as function keys, pressing Fn makes them work as media keys.
So even though he said Magic Keyboard, the Fn key toggle actually applies to all compact keyboards for both laptops and desktops, and not just on Macs.
@@alchappers_g4ptv Got it! I did that and it all is working perfectly. Excellent Video
But not required, just need to choose Work setup(needs to be Pro), then choose Domain Join instead of MS account, will let you setup a local account. Not sure why all these tutorials insist you do the workarounds when you shouldnt need to.... maybe needed for Home edition, but not Pro.
Very few people explain things so clearly! Great!!
I discovered this guide by chance, and it was all very easy, now I'm subscribed to your channel. Thank you very much.
This is the best and easiest method so far, and it's also free. I have tried so many ways install winodes, but this was the quickest way. I recently bought a MacBook and missed my Windows applications, particularly Power BI SQ, L, but this way, I can have both the benefits of Windows and Apple. Thanks.
Make sure to set up time machine to exclude the virtual machine
Why?
@@alafenetre81 otherwise your time machine will keep a full duplicated copy of the virtual machine every time you start it
how to do that?
@@brs5543 in time machine setting you can exclude folder. It is designed for this scenario. Exclude the virtual machine drive folder
@@brs5543 Settings > General > Time machine > Options
this was an amazing guide. thank you so much. i followed it alongside installing everything. you are very thorough
Thank you for this clip. I've recently purchased my first Mac and since my 9to5 job is only windows based (with some linux servers and VMs for testing) I was forced to get the parallels trail period. I've researched the VM Ware's fusion but I haven't found the intstalation files for it. Thank you for this tutorial
did you installed ,hows it runnin
Thank u so much Jeff! Finally i can play AOE II again! 🎉
Thank you so much! I am able to set up Windown on MacOS successfully.
Actually helpful and legit. Finally have windows running on my mac after this easy set up tutorial.
really is it free?
Super helpful, i followed every step and worked flawlessly for me. Thank you
Superb instructions, easy to follow and setup. Thanks for taking the time to share.
Very thorough and concise. Great work, Jeff!
Outstanding video and production quality. Super helpful, thank you so much.
I am stuck on the 'Download Windows 11' stage. It has been 'downloading windows11 esd file from Microsoft' for so long and is stuck. Any idea why this might be happening?
I have this problem too
I am facing this problem too. Anyone solution pls.
@@sohamdube2815 same
the same issue :(
I think I figurate it you have to download the 13.6.1 version I had problem like you but now I think It works
Are there any disadvantages to not entering the windows licence key during the setup process, such as some features not being available to you?
fantastic vid !! step by step easy to follow . Ive been a mac user for ages but somtimes for work I need windows and had to use my parteners pc. thanks a heap !! 😃
Thank you very much. I had the same problem that many comment in the video, the download faded and accumulated unnecessary files in the VM folder. Solution: connect via network cable and retry the win11 download. To me it worked the first time and by wifi I had almost 10 errors. Greetings, I hope it helps someone and again thank you very much, Jeff.
This was such a great tutorial. So easy to follow. Thank you so much!
Jeff,
Great video! I just clicked *Like* to help me find it again. 😀 It reminds of that great video you did years ago about installing Windows on Intel Macs that got millions of views. I plan to buy my Apple Silicon Mac by December and this will come in really handy since I need to run MadCap Software Flare, which is Windows only.
Tutorial worked exactly as advertised. Thank you!
DOS THE MICROSOFT STORE WORK ALSO ?
Happy to see it's still working!
Thanks for the video. It seems that the procedure changed a bit. Now you download the "non pro" version and when you install you come to a serial number page. On this page you either enter a licence number or you click the "pro for personal use" button. Then the install procedure is identical to your video.
@@2011k this should be a pinned comment. Bcs I already taught that they discontinued it. Thanks man!
Thank you for all
Great video! I got tripped up after hitting the "play" butt in VMW, so for anyone else, remember to click inside the VM Ware window before hitting any key to boot Windows.
Thanks
stuck on the "downloading windows11 esd file from Microsoft" part. what should I do?
It's nice to hear your voice again Jeff, it's been a while 🙂
very helpful and legit. i'm currently in school and i need Lenox and i needed this. This helped me so much truly.
Also works on M1
Thank you Jeff, Excellent and great video step-by-step, was very helpful, the best....
VMware Fusion is not cheap, but it is a superior product. I am amazed at how reliable it is.
Is it possible that I'm the only one who can't see "get Windows from Microsoft" or am I doing something wrong?
This is all great and dandy BUT! When I finished installing windows 11 Pro the display is not fitting my screen size correctly and it won't let me set the correct scale size because its not an activated windows and there is no key, thats the part you dont mention
Having an issue when it comes to getting into the command line (6:20) in the video. Any ideas or others having trouble here?
Update - restart the machine and it worked fine. Great video though, thank you!
Thank-you for a well-done video on getting the software, Windows and getting it all to work. I'm going to give it a try on my laptop for a trip. I have gotten this to work before the transition to Broadcom and also got UTM to work but it would be nice to get this set up in case I need Windows.
Everything in the video works but I was hoping that shared folders works and I couldn't figure out how to do it. So I'm going back to UTM. Hopefully Broadcom adds this in a future version.
Thank you!
I needed to install visual studio and this helps!!
any drawbacks from not utilising a W11 product key?
You wont be able to customise the display such as change wallpaper, but otherwise no issues.
@@malch2843 You can change the wallpaper. Download a wallpaper and right click, set as wallpaper. But you can't change theme.
U can change display image download from Google...it's easy ..don't need key
Thank you so much for the video: a great help including the download link, for which I still can't find it on Broadcom pages by myself because the auto update from 13.6.1 to 13.6.2 did not work that I had to download the latest version manually 😓
BRO THIS IS PERFECT JUST WHAT I NEEDED
Thank you so much this was so helpful ❤
Thanks for great guide!
Not sure why or if it was removed, the Pro version doesn't come up for me.. there is VMware Fusion 13 but not 13 Pro, why would that be? Any help would be appreciated.
sameee mayb the licence has all already been used up so we need to purchase new a license for it to work
Jeff, The timming could me perfect just got a new job and requires to have a windows computer
Worked perfectly. Thanks
Thanks a lot, this tutorial really helped me.
Great video. I really appreciate
Perfect tutorial, thank you so much!!!
Great video, everything covered!
Thank you so much, sir. It worked perfectly.
i missed the part where in it was mentioned that this is the arm version of windows 11 and thus not 'all' windows app will work contrary to what was mentioned in the last part
if its a MS app itll work, and thanks to windows on arm push this year itll get better
Thanks this worked!
already had windows 7 on an earlier version of fusion. updated to fusion 13 pro as you show in the first minutes of the video, but when it comes to select install method (around 2:30) i didn't get a pop up to "get windows from Microsoft". would you have any tips for installation of updated windows under those circumstances?
Excellent video I do have a question. I only need to run one application in windows and I keep a Windows computer just for that but with this application I won’t need to do that for much longer. However I need to know will I be able to access my dropbox From within the virtual machine because I need to access some files for the program that I’m using within Windows thank you very much. Keep up the good work.
Will the free VMWare license allow for USB passthrough? I have a Win only program that requires the ability to communicate with hardware via a USB programming cable.
This is my exact same question.
Thank you Jeff, this is helpful indeed
crashes while downloading windows
any tips?
The download window stuck. Any tips on how to solve it? 2:46
same
same do you found any solution?
Just wait at the very end is gonna complete (it happened to me when the status bar was full but it eventually finished)
In the video you install the ARM version of Windows 11. Does VMware provide an emulation of Intel CPUs and support for those Windows versions? That might be nifty to use a larger palette of software than what currently exists for ARM CPUs...
Windows 11 ARM runs something similar to Rosetta 2 to translate x64 code to ARM. If you want to run with emulation, then UTM will do this but I've heard that it's really slow.
@@movdqa it is reaaaaallllyy slow. you might pull your hair out.
@@movdqa Absolutely 💯 true..... I've used it and it's a really bad experience and I don't recommend it. I'm using an M1 MBP with 8GB of RAM & 512 GB SSD.
Thanks for super instructions. How to uninstall the Windows from VMWare ? Can the windows ios be installed on USB (64 gb) ?
How do you get to the product download page? I can’t find it anywhere and it doesn’t show how you got there in the video
Links are in the description.
@@9to5Mac But the download link in the description is incomplete and does not work. :-(
Great vid, very easy to follow! Is there a way to stop the audio stuttering?
If i set up a VM on an external Drive, will i be able to use it on another Mac as well?
Also, is 8gb of RAM (baseline Macbook Air) sufficient for light tasks in Windows?
i've heard we cant move files between mac and VM windows ?
I clicked the newest version and it says my mac needs to update but i try updating but it doesn’t show a new update
Macbook M2, but I'm located outside the US. The installer of VMWare does not work. I keep ending up with an app with 0 bytes. Have tried the a version earlier, that kept running in the Initializing phase forever. So, what can I try next?
Trying this and it appears to be downloading the Windows Server 2025 ISO for some reason.
Same here.
@@kerkey55 I ended up creating an ISO from the latest beta build from UPP Dump. I was able to use that ISO in VMWare Fusion.
1:19 i dont have any option call VMware Fusion Pro for personal use..just VMware Fusion 13,12 and 11
edited..just download the latest and during installation when require for pass or key..at the bottom you will find personal use only option..
Thank you very much Jeff!!!! this is awesome!!!!
You have used a x86 Windows or arm64 Windows? I tried to install another software and only Parallels has sucessfull to install Windows 11.
the esd isnt downloading, any tips?
same here
same
same
SAME
same😢
Hi, thanks so much for sharing this video and tutorial just had a couple questions so this version of VMware fusion is totally free forever or is it a demo or limited edition also windows 11 is also totally free? And is it full version because parallels I think is $100 and does this work as good? Thanks so much in advance.
Great video on how to install Windows 11.
Thank you so much. I’m assuming I can still increase the size that I listed for windows to run on? I used an external SSD, but only put like 120 gigs out of my 450 available. Since it’s on my Mac Mini wanna do 4/10 cores for VM and 6-8 gigs for windows.
I highly recommend you choose the right drive size on first setup because when you go to expand it and try to allocate it within Windows it won't work.
Very informative!
Not sure what I'm doing wrong...no version 13 for personal use shows up when I log in. Only Version 11, 12, 13. Can anyone advise?
download the latest 13 version. when opened, it will ask to use pro version for personal use. select that and you're done
Thank you so much Jeff, I’m wondering how many license can this method being used: i.e. if I totally erased my Mac, and buy a new one does this method still work,
Excellent Tutorial
I did these steps till the part where I can download the software after providing the address details.
It doesn't let me download the software because compares a notification that says "Account verification is Pending. Please try after some time.". It's 2 days that I'm coming back to this part and checking if the download is finally available.
I don't know how is it for those who were able to do all the steps in just a few hours..
Am I missing something?
Hope to see Boot Camp respawn after Windows ARM support! So we all can run things w breeze!
nice video! helped me a lot!
I've used Parallels in the past. I've gotten used to accessing the same files in both macOS and the Windows virtual machine, for example, editing something using Paint on Windows, and being able to put that same file on iMovie on macOS The files doesnt seem to sync anymore. Is there a way to enable file syncing on VMware?
My "Select Installation Method" screen looks very different. I don't have the option to "Get Windows from Microsoft". I see "Install MacOS from recovery partition", "Import an existing virtual machine", "Install from Boot Camp", "Create a custom virtual machine", "create a VM on a remote server". I tried the custom virtual machine option, but ended up creating something that acted like DOS with no Windows.
My mac is running Ventura on an Intel i9.
Any thoughts?
Same
thanks, man, you saved my life
I use UTM. It's fine but some apps have performance issues (like PowerBI, which doesn't have native arm support). Is this any better?
the download link for the Fusion files gives an error "Screening Required" - no idea what that means.
very good video, worked fine for me
אחלה של סרטון, עבר אצלי יחסית חלק
When I reach the "Select the Installation Method" on VMware setup it doesn't show the option "Get Windows from Microsoft". Anyone knows why? I'm outta US but even using VPN doesn't show the option...
same here and I'm in the US
Me to
me too
Hello Jeff, I am trying to install Windows 11 on my Intel Mac. I upgraded to VM Fusion 13.5.2. To install Windows I need to have TPM 2.0 in place. To add TPM, I need to Encrypt, and when I try to do that I get a message: 'You do not have enough disk space to perform this operation:
You must free up at least 427.6 GB. But, I have nearly 900GB of unused space! Can you please help?'
amazing, thank you for sharing!
What type of Windows 11 Iso file do I need exactly?
The Windows 11 Iso x64 regular download wouldn't work so i'm not sure what to do.
This helped massively. Am I able to change the resources incase I want to run more intensive games?
Great tutorial. Not clear if you still have to purchase the windows license or if your steps bypass this.
@@robertgleason2838 just look up mass grave windows script and put into powershell and you’ll get free windows
@@robertgleason2838 Of course you have to. Its not free.
You don't need to purchase a license, but you will have the watermark on the bottom right corner of the display reminding you that windows is not activated. This restricts some of the customization options (background, some operations on the task bar) but other than that should allow you to still do whatever you need inside the windows environment.
@@DennisPellanda great, thanks
Random problem. When I get a confirmation code on my mail, I have to go into the mail app and then back to safari, then I get the code filled in like you did...
The OOBE command doesn't work, it says it's not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program, or batch file.
so am i, tell me if it works
@@razialghiffari5428 I switched to UTM and it's been working fine since.
wow, super helpful. thanks!