![]() Now we are ready to start installation and configuration. ![]() In my tutorial, the names of the installation files are: You can create a separate partition or create custom folders in your home user folder to store installation files and virtual machines.įor convenience, I’ve renamed installation files to avoid using long names. The name of this disk partition is disk_d. In my case, I have a separate disk partition to store installation files and virtual machines on Mac. You can download the installation ISO image of Windows 10 from the Microsoft website. You can download the VMware Fusion 12 installer from the official VMware website. I’m using VMware Fusion 12.1.0 as a VMware hypervisor to run a Windows 10 VM on macOS. What is a guest operating system? The difference between host and guest operating systems is that a host OS is installed on the hardware, and a guest OS is running on a virtual machine that uses virtualized hardware. I’m using macOS 10.15 Catalina as the host operating system and Windows 10 20H2 Professional 圆4 as the guest operating system in the tutorial. The ISO installation image of Windows 10.VMware Fusion 12 can be installed on macOS 10.15 Catalina and macOS 11.0 Big Sur. Your macOS must be compatible with the VMware Fusion version you are going to install.750 MB of free disk space to install VMware Fusion and additional disk space to store virtual machine files.Windows 10 running as a guest OS requires at least 4 GB of RAM. Keep in mind that you need more RAM to run VMware guest operating systems. 4 GB of memory, but we recommend at least 8 GB of memory to install VMware Fusion on macOS.Processor (CPU) architecture must be Intel x86-64.A Mac computer manufactured in 2011 or later (except 2012 Mac Pro Quad Core with the Intel Xeon W3565 Processor) 2010 Mac Pro Six Core, Eight Core, and Twelve Core with a graphics card that supports Metal.If your macOS version is older than 10.5 Catalina, install an older VMware Fusion version supported by your macOS. In this section, I list the requirements for VMware Fusion 12, the latest version at the time of writing this blog post. Installing Windows or Linux from an x86 ISO, for example, will not work.Before proceeding with installing VMware Fusion, check system requirements. So, to be a bit blunt, running x86 operating systems on Apple silicon is not something we are planning to deliver with this project. That’s not new news, and I hope Microsoft moves on this soon, but even if they do, Fusion users won’t be able to run non-Arm versions of Windows: The Insider Preview program says: “To install Windows 10 Insider Preview Builds, you must be running a licensed version of Windows 10 on your device.” And as far as we are aware, there is no way to buy a Windows 10 ARM license for a Mac with Apple silicon. With Windows on ARM however, this presents a unique situation, particularly as it relates to Licensing. Of course, users are expecting to run Windows in a virtual machine, much like we’ve been used to for many years now. That’s the experience I had hoped for, but there’s some bad news too, at least for some users: So we’re very encouraged by our early results, and seriously can’t wait to get it on every Apple silicon equipped Mac out there. Even with that said, and note that I’m using ‘debug’ builds which perform slower, in my 12 years at VMware I’ve never seen VMs boot and run like this. Of course, just booting a bunch of VMs that are mostly idle isn’t quite a ‘real world experience’, nor is it the same as doing some of the stress testing that we perform in the leadup to a release. 6 different Linux flavors and 1 FreeBSD… MacBook Air. ![]() ![]() You can see here that I have 7 ARM VMs booted at once… 2 are CLI only (Photon and BSD), the others are full desktops… each is configured with 4CPU and 8GB of RAM. Michael Roy, giving an update on how development work on Fusion of Apple silicon is going:
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