I did not feel comfortable extracting stuff from the Parallels ISO, so I went down the reverse engineering path to see exactly what they were doing. Given the information the (the link was very helpful) - I have reversed engineer the process that Parallels is using to get a Windows 11 ARM ISO directly from Microsoft (well, they don't get the ISO from Microsoft, but they are getting the ESD and using open source and macOS tools to create the ISO). Hey everyone! I think I have a breakthrough. So who blinks first? Microsoft to release publicly the ISO for Windows 11 ARM, or VMware to provide a similar ISO for download like Parallels does? So, if you have this Windows 11 ARM ISO that Parallels downloaded for you, the installation of a Fusion Windows 11 ARM VM just got a little easier. So far the VM is behaving fine and updating itself to the 2023-02 Cumulative Update for Windows 11 for arm64-based Systems. No issues with the ISO and no changes to the procedures in the Companion Guide. I skipped the procedures in the Companion Guide for building an ISO from and jumped straight to the procedure to create a VM and install from ISO. The ISO appears to be a pretty vanilla version of Windows 11 22H2 (build 22621.525). So I asked myself: "Self, I wonder if this ISO will work with Fusion?" Parallels tech notes say that they are downloading the file "from Microsoft". The first thing that it did was to download a Windows 11 ARM installation ISO file named:Ģ_release_svc_refresh_CLIENTCONSUMER_RET_A64FRE_en-us.iso After installation I proceeded to have it install a Windows 11 VM. I installed the trial version of Parallels Desktop 18 as I was curious what build of Windows 11 they were using. This provides more protection for your files and lets you make file sharing decisions on a folder-by-folder basis.I ran a little experiment after seeing what Microsoft and Parallels announced this week. It's best to leave this file unchecked and manually create shared folders later on. Enabling this option allows the Windows virtual machine to access the files on your Mac desktop and in your Mac user folder.
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