Windows 11 on Apple Silicon Macs w/ FREE VMware Player

[@kshitijjain2594]

If you can't find the iso file in your downloads folder then follow these steps: 1. Click on apple logo (Top right corner) 2. Click on About this Mac 3. Click More Info 4. Go to bottom of this About section and click Storage Settings 5. Click on i button of Documents Folder 6. Go to File Browser 7. Click Command+Shift+. at the same time. (This will open up hidden folders) 8 Now select Library>Parallels>Downloads. 9. Here you go, this folder contains the iso file of windows11. If this helps, give this comment a like, if not then reply to this comment I'll help you.

[@krabbybun]

I see only "Applications (Parallels)" I dont see anything labeled "Library" when I expose hidden folders

[@emanuelepescosolido6066]

You're the best

[@warchitaa]

Thanks a lot man

[@Dolor3]

your amazing man

[@fiyaz-koya]

thanks a lot bro worked for me

[@1369usmc]

This changed after the acquisition of VMware by Broadcom. Now the VMware Fusion (Pro) and VMware Workstation Pro are free. Some great videos on getting the current VMware... kind of tricky and hidden. Love the trick on getting W11.

[@1daful]

This video is so timely. I was just contemplating whether or not to renew my parallel subscription and certainly I won't be doing that now. Thanks!

[@floridahummer]

same here.

[@FerTechCH]

Parallels pushed us to a subscription model and I hate it for that. They should still give us the chance to buy the Pro one time fee version with unlimited CPU or GPU restrictions.

[@i_zion]

@@FerTechCH On top of that, it limits us to only 8GB of memory. Ridiculous.

[@z_dc7]

you can get parralells for free with a few terminal commands you know???

[@katsouvv]

@@z_dc7 what commands? do you think you can send a vid for it? im new to this

[@MartinPaoloni]

I have no use for this, but did it anyway. It works great. Thanks!!!

[@ChrisBrowncaptainchris45]

Same!!! I'm hoping there is a use case for me at some point but not yet...lololol

[@spencerdiniz]

Nice tutorial… I wish all tutorial videos where straight to the point and as eloquent as this.

[@soontaek]

You exposed your key right before the transition, not sure if it matters but just so you know since you blurred it

[@JAL_EDM]

Keys are motherboard locked once used so it's fine

[@ko-Daegu]

@@JAL_EDM same with VM ??

[@daniil2815]

@JAL It's not true. I installed Windows 10 Pro on 2 different laptops with the same key

[@Juanguar]

@@JAL_EDM this applies to OEM keys only not retail keys

[@yann2035]

@@JAL_EDMI've been using the same Windows 7 Pro key I took a photo of on the back of a school computer for YEARSS, still activates my windows every time lol

[@alfonsomartin6518]

Beautiful video. Spent literal months trying to download windows on my mac. Through thousands of methods this is the only one that works. Cheers mate.

[@ikerlleida2058]

Tried SO many different videos about UTM and other VM's, this was the only one that actually worked and allowed me to download it and finally get Power BI on my MacBook. Thanks!

[@douglassitzmann8742]

Wow...how would anyone know this without such an amazing explanation! Thank you so much!

[@TFIdenpendence]

Way to go Jeff! That was awesome. Your instructions were flawless! Thanks so much my friend!!!😁

[@shelleyanderson4823]

Followed every single step, checking and rechecking that it was all correct. I got all the way to 8:57, where you go into DVD drive, Right click Setup and "Run With Powershell." On the dropdown menu it only says "Run As Administrator" not Powershell. And so therefore can't continue, any help please?

[@gokberkmetin2486]

I have the same problem right now did you find a solution

[@shelleyanderson4823]

@@gokberkmetin2486 Nope, one has commented but you, so I went to a different KZbinr and can now run it easier with easier steps too.

[@zahrashaikh4580]

@@shelleyanderson4823im facing the same prblm rn….can u plz tell the youtuber which helped??or the video u watched

[@iSpinsy]

@@shelleyanderson4823what’s the video? I’m having the same issue

[@JDW-]

At 4:52 it says to click the Play button. When I did that step, I got this error: "The guest attempted to read beyond the end of a disc image..." Then in the Windows black screen area it says: "Start PXE over IPv4." and "PXE-E16: No valid offer received." I repeats that again, and then below that it says: "Start PXE over IP6." It then freezes, and clicking does nothing. After pressing return and clicking more though, it then presented me with a yellow Shell> prompt. If I type "reset" and press Return, it simply gets me back to the same text I just told you about. It won't boot from the image, probably because I don't know what commands to type. After that, I deleted the virtual machine, created a new one to start over, and then it worked. Hopefully, this info will help others who experience the same. There is one huge downside to Fusion versus Parallels. I have a UTi260B Thermal Camera that connects to my MBP via USB-C cable. Only Parallels can detect it. Fusion cannot. Sadly, even MacOS cannot, which is perhaps why feature-limited Fusion cannot. But clearly, Parallels is much smarter software because when I connect my thermal imager, I get a popup dialog that asks if I want to allow Parallels to use it. It appears as a "UVC camera." OBS and the UTI app for the imager can see it within Parallels. I can then use Quicktime to record my screen in order to save video taken by it. If Fusion could do that, it would be great because that would mean I wouldn't have to use Parallels. Honestly, I only need Windows for that one app alone. Makes no sense to pay the big bucks for a one trick pony.

[@nightcoder5k]

Thank you for the video. I bought the standard license for Parallels for my Macmini M2 pro, and I've been loving it.

[@coelhoengineer]

The iso file no longer downloads into the download folder. At least, this happened to me, and when I followed your steps, it downloaded the entire VM within parallels.

[@samuelalake1790]

I had the same issue too. EDIT: Just found an answer in the comments "Copying from another comment: If you can't find the iso file in your downloads folder then follow these steps: 1. Click on apple logo (Top right corner) 2. Click on About this Mac 3. Click More Info 4. Go to bottom of this About section and click Storage Settings 5. Click on i button of Documents Folder 6. Go to File Browser 7. Click Command+Shift+. at the same time. (This will open up hidden folders) 8 Now select Library>Parallels>Downloads. 9. Here you go, this folder contains the iso file of windows11."

[@MikeVillasenor]

The ISO file is not showing in the downloads folder, Parallels is just going along with the Windows 11 installation process. Has this method changed?

[@kevranih4670]

Having the same issue

[@user-pn4px5nl6w]

Just redo the previous steps and it should show up the ISO file in your downloads

[@trs_one]

seems like it doesn't download to user/downloads anymore. As of today- following the video tutorial for installation of parallels, the ISO is located in user/Library/Parallels/Downloads

[@KalosLikesComputers]

No hate, but how did y'all mess up the HDR render so badly on this video? It looks washed out and dark on even an HDR display.

[@praveensuthar499]

The iso file of windows doesn't show in the downloads separately, It is stored in parallels itself where we can't make it useful.

[@walkwithreena.]

I am facing the same prob. Can anyone suggest how to get the file I don't see it in the downloads

[@praveensuthar499]

@@walkwithreena. don't follow this way, there is another video also follow that. In which u have to dwnld the window 11 beta version.

[@rideSYV246]

@@walkwithreena. For Parallels 19; the ISO will be under ~Library\Parallels\Downloads

[@kirillvoloshin2065]

great video and awesome tutorial! switched to mac because got sick of windows, but hey, there are great options 😀

[@itsfreshtv96]

Not working Parallel is NOT installing it into the downloads folder and i cant find where its downloaded.

[@stephenverderese9411]

This was just what I was looking for. Wanted to run my old QB Desktop software on my Macbook Pro M2. I had a Windows license key but didn't need to run Parallels. Perfect solution for my requirements. Thank you Jeff!!!

[@0x80O0oOverfl0w]

Bruh! 🌟 Gold star for you. After reading a bunch of reddit posts that basically said this was impossible, I found your video and it worked like a charm even for 11 Pro. Life saver man!

[@pravdavideochannel]

Thanks, Jeff - very helpful. Only issues I had were my own, wanting to put spaces in some of the cmd lines. Appreciate it!

[@rahulchourpagar7763]

I’m installing VMware but it is stuck at the initialise. Not moving forward with the installation I’m stuck at it for 30mins now. I’m using Mac Pro M2 2022, please someone help me out in this.

[@muhammadjusuf3806]

Hey, i got the same problem. Did you find the solution yet?

[@GadaraMudasa-bn9rc]

Finally I got windows from keyr (Make sure to include the dot (.) between "keyr" and "org") I like some of the transitions, but sometimes they're a bit too much and are seemingly random. Since we use these persistent elements that transition across pages to indicate some kind of relationship between the previous and the next states, some of your transitions confuse me because I can't immediately see what the relationship is. For example 2:23 of the selectable tiles (which weren't selected) transition into being two switches... does that mean anything? are they related in some way? I see this as random and a bad use of the design language. However, at 1:14 I like the transition from switches to the ticks on a paper, that makes sense to me. Epic presentation tho

[@johnbertram]

Woah, mind blown! I installed Windows on a MacBook 12 and it worked great. I have a specific requirement to use Excel and the MacOS version is not good... Swiping between WIndows and MacOS could be game changing for me instead of rebooting every time. Thanks for this!

[@reverend_wintondupree]

I'm in the same boat. How's your experience been so far? Able to retain the Windows keyboard shortcuts, run vba macros smoothly, etc.?

[@johnbertram]

@@reverend_wintondupree Experience has been excellent. No problems with VBA (including forms) and the keyboard works as I expect - certainly not noticed any problems. It is literally like having Windows on my MacBook, especially when full-screen. As far as I can tell, performance hasn't been an issue on default settings. I think you can alter processor parameters if need be. I had the VM shut down for a week or so and just booted it back up - I think it took less than 5 seconds to get to Windows desktop. And as said before, i tend to just leave it running and swipe between screens. Overall, for very little effort you can have something pretty awesome that just kind of works. Very definitely recommend this setup. As a little experiment I also built a VM Linux instance - not bad, but options for distros are limited and I think better solutions for Linux on Mac exist. I keep a Windows PC for 'legacy' work, but now am thinking of getting a Mac Mini and just having a VM Windows for legacy. Go for it - the worst that can happen is you don't like it and delete it!

[@mohammadizhaan6346]

@@johnbertram i have a question.....the student id that i have only allows "read only" function for power point,excel on mac,will i be able use edit feature if i use this method to run the apps on windows

[@VinnyV81]

Very cool! Thanks for posting these instructions. I ran VMWare previously and this works out perfect for me.

[@sammarketing777]

Hello, to Run the vmware tools I don't have the run with powershell in the context menu How to fix this?

[@joselozano41]

Im Stuck on the Click any key prompt, I get a message that says Start PXE over IPv4

[@MonsonWu]

I am from Taiwan, and I have successfully installed the software according to your steps. Thank you for Jeff's sharing!

[@chlwofer]

iso still there when u guys download it just give it more few minute then it will pup out by itself.I LOVE YOU BRO

[@grantchin1526]

3:19 the licence key is not blocked out briefly and can easily be seen if you play back the video at minimum speed and then pause it

[@Pasi123]

Or you can use , and . keys to jump from frame to frame

[@ChannaEdirisinghe]

Thanks!

Brilliant solution! It could have come a day earlier and then I wouldn't have to suffer with Homebrew and Windows Insider. Thanks for this solution! :)

[@JamieR]

I couldn't skip and use offline mode after using OOBE cmd. Easily solved it by temporarily disabling the network adapter for the virtual machine. Excellent guide. Thank you! Also, Parallels didn't download to downloads folder in this new version of Parallels. It was stored in Library/Application Support/Parallells and in some folder for downloads. That install ISO didn't work. The VMware Fusion's download for arm W11 did however work.

[@user-nuve3ub2]

Do we need to eventually buy a license for windows running on ARM or can we legally continue using this specific version of Windows (assuming that this is an insider preview?) on ARM for free?

[@Raj_Das]

My Mac webcam isn't working in VMware and the camera driver is having a "!" icon on device manager. Please help

[@daielmrnv]

This is the only video that actually helped me downloading Windows on my Macbook. Thanks a lot!

[@code4rmscratch]

Really awesome help, Jeff. I switched to Mac M1 and had some of my software (SSMS & Power BI) not supported by Mac. I didn't want to pay for Parallel, and this video is a saviour. Thanks buddy!!!

[@cactustweeter2890]

Great video. Great to have you back Jeff.

[@fiyaz-koya]

loved it as i love mac for the slim and speed with battery and standard looks needs windows tools for few analytics works and some old apps this works like a charm

[@noiseattackzine]

Jeff, this is awesome.. thanks a lot for sharing your clear instruction on how to setup WinOS to MacOS machine

[@jun_suzuki42]

I have been using VMware Fusion on my Intel Mac to run Windows 11. So far so good.

[@reboxtherapy]

Have you tried it on bootcamp?

[@RaumGM]

Are you gaming with it??

[@kabobsyea9985]

hi all. anybody stuck at 4:55, the vmware not running? ">>Start PXE over IPv4. PXE-E16: no valid offer received" can anybody help me on this? pls

[@Noizey255]

same

[@rapha-ux]

Thanks for the detailed process! Awesome video!

[@vded13]

Great video in terms of explaining and length! And now the big question, should I install it on a Mac mini M2 base model because of the 8gb RAM?

[@othonielmolina]

This video helped me a ton. Thanks brother!

[@georgelza]

... installed VMWare Fusion Reader, once completed i tried to open it and computer implied it's not compatible, although I did select MAC for Intel and ARM. ideas.

[@sekirokun210]

What's the difference between Parallels and VMware? Is there any limitatiom besides gaming?

[@jerripot]

Just wondering how much storage this takes up? I only have 8GB memory with 89 GB left of storage.

[@christophercooper0128]

Thank U So Much Jeff It Really Helps Me Out

[@user-uo6kc5yn2f]

You are the best. I will share your in my tech community. Thanks again

[@SPJonez]

Finally, a free hassle-free solution to my Office 365 envy! Great video, thanks!

[@SomethingSomewhereJustOnce]

I'm a Windows user and the only part of the whole Mac ecosystem that makes me envious is their ARM chips. Ngl this makes things a little tempting.

[@SPJonez]

@@SomethingSomewhereJustOnce ikr, I switched to a MBP 16 M1 Pro system for that very reason. Parallels Desktop is excellent at virtualizing Windows on Apple Silicon Macs, but a free alternative is a cost-effective solution for my use case.

[@mohammadizhaan6346]

heyyy! i have a question.....the student id that i have only allows "read only" function for power point,excel on mac,will i be able use edit feature if i use this method to run the apps on windows

[@user-vr5qu4ye2d]

Used a random ISO I found online and ran it through UTM and my MacBook was on fire. Used this method and a lot better.

[@WhatTheHac]

after trying all day finally found someone who helped me , thank you man 🥺

[@floridahummer]

thankyou, i used paralles but got fed up with the subscription model, got vmware 13 and downloaded windows 11 pro and it works great.

[@marcocosta76]

Thank you mate, awesome and flawless process! :)

[@nchia]

What I’d really appreciate is a way to install macOS Mojave virtual machine running later versions of macOS, ie run 32-bit Mac apps. I’ve managed to do so with VirtualBox but performance is woeful. I also couldn’t work out the settings, and ideally able to have virtual machines connect with the same app server as if they were all running Mojave natively. But this Windows ARM on Apple Silicon is pretty cool too. Bummer business use for VMware Fusion is so expensive.

[@vxisto]

Try using UTM for this, probably is gonna be nicer due to use KVM in the backend (which for running 32bit MacOS is perfect). But I've never tried to set a Mac VM on it, maybe doing a UTM forum/formula search, or GPTing it could work

[@nchia]

@@vxisto Thanks for suggesting UTM. It says: "macOS guests are supported on Apple Silicon hosts running macOS 12 or higher." so it might mean my Intel iMac is out of luck?

[@user-rt6le7qu5j]

Hi, I am on the final stage of installing the ISO file on the VM but I am getting a prompt asking me to sign in. There is not an option to skip this. I don't see that you had to sign in. Did i do something wrong?

[@DimitrisPhd]

Great video thanx! Just one question. IS there a memory leak? at UTM you provide 4gb and it keeps using the double amount. Thanx

[@jwmurrayjr]

Thanks Jeff. Very useful content! 😀

[@sudipmukherjee9320]

Bro you are a life saver excellent video pl continue doing great work this is the only video worked for my macbook M1 air

[@omaraldabbagh749]

Great walkthrough. Thanks a lot 😍

[@jiankuo]

is this method of getting windows11 iso result a differerent verison than the windows insider preview download(which is beta 25346). I been using this copy and there are some weird stuff. it won't let me install some software and there is always a pop-up saying this version of windows is out of date, even I ran all the updates...

[@thilirathnayaka]

Thank you so much.. The steps were easy follow & everything is working..

[@adamotak5145]

i needed a second OS for my Macbook to watch phub videos thanks

[@abhishektiwari2101]

This is brilliant! Thank you!

[@RadioBoy123]

This no longer seems to work - ARM copy of Windows 11 doesn't show in my downloads folder before Parallels starts running it in their window. Am I doing something wrong?

[@denyson_sports]

this is the best tutorial 👏👏👏

[@Petersilie161]

Awesome - Works flawlessly

[@majorgear1021]

Could you do a shoutout between Parallels, VMWare , and UTM ? It would be great to see a side by side comparison!

[@Septymus]

Thank you very much for this tutorial! You're my savior! :D

[@theyaghu]

Can you make a video in which this same process on external ssd because Mac hasn't have that much space 😅

[@user-gh8gk8ir2i]

Very nice video, only thing is the Windows isn't activated. Any workarounds about it? Thanks in advance

[@SandeepGoraya]

Thanks Buddy, downloaded VMware and windows file, will be installing it tomorrow..

[@thomaslai4111]

Great video. Thanks for the information. I only had one question. What compay or organization should I put along with title to register?

[@vinhquyentrading]

The ISO file does not appear after it validated. What should I do?

[@smear6uard]

what did u do

[@DiamondMind949]

I don't think you can find a better guide on ANYthing here on KZbin. This was so easy to follow, thanks so much! One small tip, I actually didn't know about the network bypass, so it might be a good idea to remind the viewers about the command to disable it somewhere towards the beginning

[@toufikstl7480]

Minute 8:50 run with poweshell is not showing on my options menu. Not even open with option. What to do?

[@iSpinsy]

Mines doing the same, did you figure it out?

[@toufikstl7480]

i ended up just running it as admin, as a normal install withou powershell, it worked @@iSpinsy

[@toufikstl7480]

@@iSpinsy ended up running it as admin without power/l-shell. Just a normal install. Worked, i think

[@aaLexiitO7]

Right click on setup and copy the file path . Open powersheel as administrador and put: Start-Process + space + "CMD+V". Must look like Start-Process D:\setup.exe or Start-Process "D:\setup.exe"

[@JP-gz9qc]

Does not work now , does not form a windows iso

[@travisjohnson7531]

Same issue here. I thought I was going nuts.

[@jetoptimusprime]

Library hidden folder then Parallels folder You're welcome

[@navin_thomas]

@@jetoptimusprime Thank you so much!

[@obaytimur]

Thanks, man! You helped me so much and also to save a lot of money.

[@grow-evolve]

who was the first person to figure this out and I am curious how would you go about figuring out all of those steps, genuinely curious. I am studying software development and genuinely curious.

[@kishore1261]

thank you. The Video was fully Descriptive.

[@hashmitgabri1159]

Really appreciate this video 😊

[@pro6adviesstartexpertre-in890]

Nice video. I've got just 1 issue; is not possible to install the VMware Tools run with Powershell. I've taken all the steps regarding PS, but rightclicking on the setupfile there is no run as Powershell option...

[@dan-carlton]

did u figure this out?

[@iSpinsy]

Same problem here. Anyone figure it out?

[@ripr4582]

Thanks for this excelent tutorial, but one issue I had. Thee oobe/bypassnro did not work so I had to go to c:\windows\system32\oobe and run the bypassnro.cmd from there.

[@navin_thomas]

This looks fantastic! Thanks for putting out this video.

[@DeannaAllison]

A very useful and helpful video. Thank you!

[@vanyareket143]

Commands During installation: Press “Shift + F10” keyboard shortcut In Command Prompt, type the OOBE\BYPASSNRO and press Enter. After installation: PS Set-ExecutionPolicy RemoteSigned

[@spirosalmpanis6694]

Can't type backslash \ on MacBook pro m1, it gives me # .. control+\ types ^\ and shift +\ types ~... Try Mac profile, Profile -default, windows 10 profile, windows 8 profile at VMware settings..

[@vanyareket143]

@@spirosalmpanis6694 You may be able to copy the desired character from the path that is already there after opening the command prompt

[@Frenchfriez]

OOBE\BYPASSNRO does not work. it says OOBEKEYBOARD

[@ReineVerran]

Fantastic video buddy, been waiting for this along time.

[@ayemarinenub4732]

I can't find that iso file from parallels. pls help ToT

[@skgplayer10]

They have probably changed the way it works, I miss that file too. Any help? Thanks

[@saifpilot]

Thanks a lot bro

[@user-dp9ex7il4w]

Thanks jeff.. Very usefull video

[@cristobalier]

It works pretty good, thank you for the step by step.

[@mbda007]

Awesome Jeff ! Bingo...

[@cat-pd1di]

this is one of the best and most useful tutorials I have ever followed Thank You!

[@movdqa]

It looks like VMWare is finally ready for prime time on Apple Silicon. I've been using UTM and Dev Windows ARM 11 (which is free but it can have bugs) but it generally runs fine for me. UTM is actually easier to install Windows 11 ARM as the SPICE tools are a one-click installation. Have you done performance testing comparing VMWare and UTM? I'm trying to decide if it's worth it to switch to VMWare. I generally favor open source projects over commercial projects but wonder if it is worth it in this case. The VMWare registration process didn't finish for me so I can't download it. I generally hate to have to register to try a product.

[@EduardoSantanaSeverino]

I am wondering the same thing? Would this be better than UTM? What are the performance benefits of one over the other?

[@EduardoSantanaSeverino]

Please, we need a new video which is comparing performance between UTM and VMWARE 😅

[@jolynele2587]

​@@EduardoSantanaSeverino utm doesn't have graphics acceleration i think. idk about vmware as i have never used it

[@EduardoSantanaSeverino]

@Jolyne Le yesterday, I installed VMWARE and followed the tutorial, and it seems it is working so far. I will try to do some performance comparison between the two.

[@movdqa]

@@EduardoSantanaSeverino Thanks for testing it. I tested Parallels, UTM and VMware a while ago and Parallels was the best, UTM was second and VMware was last but that was at a time when it was beta I think. I wasn't able to get VirtualBox to work at all.

[@ExploringBrunets]

Hello After clicking the "PLAY BUTTON" I am receiving a PXE-E16 No valid offer received error. Does anyone know why?

[@kiberkli]

Yeah, me too.

[@kiberkli]

When it exists to the SHELL prompt, type exit. A new screen appears and select boot manager, from there select DVD. It seems to work from there on.

[@JacobCahoonJacob]

I keep getting this error when trying to start up. I followed your instructions to a t. Any ideas why? start pxe over ipv4 pxe-e16 no valid offer received

[@xkir]

same issue, also following

[@123saup]

Same issue

[@JacobCahoonJacob]

@9to5Max :)

[@nawazahmad79]

Dude, thank you so much, this is awesome!

[@palgotzoona]

Fantastic! Thank you!