The next series of steps can be performed while the Windows 11 on ARM Insider Preview is being installed. In order to continue, you’ll need to now install Homebrew, which is a command line-focused package manager that makes it easy to install packages (and apps) on your Mac directly from Github or other sources. It also makes it so that you can install QEMU which is a free and open-source virtual machine emulator, which is required in order to install Windows 11 on Mac with VMware Fusion.

Enter (or copy and paste) the following command in the Terminal window.When prompted, enter your Mac’s admin password and hit the Enter key.Once complete, enter the following command into the Terminal window.Īfter a few moments, you’ll have both Homebrew and QEMU installed, but in order to actually use the Windows 11 Insider Preview file that you downloaded earlier, you’ll need to convert the file from VMDK to a VHDX.echo ‘eval “ (/opt/homebrew/bin/brewshellenv)”′>/Users//.zprofileeval”(/opt/homebrew/bin/brew shellenv)”.

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