“Fusion Player offers a Personal Use License, available for free with a valid CustomerConnect account.

I followed step 1 and visited VMware Fusion Player 13 page where I logged on my account (if you don’t have, create one) and then registered for a personal account to get the licence.Īll sounded great but there was one problem. If you want to know how to generate Windows 11 ISO file (ARM) without the need of installing Parallels Desktop like mentioned in the 9to5mac article, see my post Installing Windows 11 on macOS Installing VMware Fusion Let’s see if following the guide from 9to5mac I will be able to get Windows 11 with decent working performance and support for Microsoft Store. The last time I tried (in beta) it wasn’t straight forward and I went with UTM. What appealed to me was the mention of the fact that the application includes a free personal license option. Recently VMware Fusion 13 gained official support for Windows on Macs with Apple Silicon.Īfter the recent update of my Installation of Windows 11 using UTM with Windows 11 Version 22H2 (22621.674), I returned to the problem of missing Microsoft Store and decided to give up for a bit until I found a post How to install Windows 11 on Apple Silicon Macs with free VMware Fusion Player in my Feedly reading list.

Between Parallels and UTM there was always VMware Fusion however I never spend too much time trying it in full.

Struggles with updates and missing functions put me a little behind. I know that from time to time I will need to head to Windows so I went into the path of using UTM for that.Īs much as UTM is great and free, the performance of Windows is a bit poor. I recalculate the use of Windows on my macOS device and the conclusion was that I am paying and not using it.

I cut unnecessary subscriptions by some and Parallels has been one of them (along with Bitdefender in favour of free Avira). As expensive the life become recently, everybody is trying to save some pennies, even me. Parallels Desktop is a bit expensive in long term. I used to use Parallels Desktop and with my hand on my heart, I can tell that this is one of the best software to run Windows 11 on Mac with Apple Silicon.

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