This has been a long time coming. I for one am excited to finally see that Microsoft has brought Windows 11 for ARM support to the Mac platform (M1 and M2 at the time of writing).
This has been a long time coming. I for one am excited to finally see that Microsoft has brought Windows 11 for ARM support to the Mac platform (M1 and M2 at the time of writing).
When VMware released Fusion 13 back in November 2022, it brought with it support for ARM-optimized operating systems. Notably Windows 11 – albeit unofficially. Now three months later, official support for Windows 11 on Apple silicone Macs has been granted and has me looking forward to finally being able to bring Windows 11 to my M2 MacBook Pro without having to jump through hoops and follow YouTube guides.
Windows 11 on Arm running on a Mac Studio computer with Apple silicon
With VMware Fusion 13 also being added to ARMs SystemReady Virtual environment certification – This puts VMware alongside Microsoft Azure, Oracle, Google Cloud, and AWS (to name a few) as officially supported ARM virtualization partners.
VMware has reworked many of its drivers for ARM Windows to include support for a virtualized TPM (Required for Windows 11), optimization of the network drivers, and optimized encryption.
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. From 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. – Michael Roy, VMware
I look forward to putting the official Windows 11 on ARM through its paces on apple silicon – feel free to drop us a line on Reddit if you have anything that you would like us to try.
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