Stepping back from the confusion of all these versions and variations, the short answer is yes, you can indeed install and run ChromeOS (in essence) within VMware or VMware Fusion, and it’s actually not too difficult.

A company called NeverWare has a pre-compiled, VM-friendly version of ChromiumOS it calls CloudReady that you can download for free directly from their Web site. On the other hand, there is an open source version of ChromeOS that has 99% feature and function overlap called ChromiumOS and that you can install and run as a virtual machine. That’s part of the licensing deal from Google’s ChromeOS development team. No, because you can’t actually run ChromeOS on a non-Chromebook computer. To install the required utilities you need to use Homebrew (the package manager for Mac OS).You ask a great question and the answer turns out to be no, but yes. You will also need a couple of utilities on MacOS before you can run this script Get utilities and create the Windows 11 ISO file You will need the file: uup_download_macos.sh Once you download the archive, open or extract it on your disk. I used the “Latest Public Release build” -> arm64 Here are my notes on how it worked for me.ĭownload and Install VMware Fusion Public Tech Preview 22H2 from the following link Download Windows 11 installerįor this we will use arm64 version of Windows 11, you can download it from. Changing the card to e1000 type in the vmx file worked, but installing the VMware tools during the installation is a better solution. A virtual machine without network connectivity is pretty useless. Interesting, but the default Windows 11 does not come with a driver for the vxnet3 network card type. VMware Fusion released the public tech preview 22H2, which supports Windows 11 arm64 on a MacBook Pro M1 processor. Something to think about when buying a new MacBook Pro if you depend on virtualization. Installing Windows on Macs with M1 and VMware Fusion was not working for me.

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