The virtual machine has 4 CPUs and 8 GB of RAM. The Apple “equivalent” of Microsoft’s first party hyper-V virtualization framework has many videos from WWDC and is officially documented online. And I created a virtual machine and installed Windows 11 as Guest OS. In this hands-on tutorial, Ill show you how to run Windows 11 for ARM using VMware Fusion Player 13, an application that includes a free personal license.

Many virtualization systems work from these installers without requiring modification of the Apple installers which are code signed for anti-tampering and security purposes. You do need to acquire a license either from the free (or paid) developer programs or one of the free (or institutional) seeding programs.

Apple publishes all the current beta full installers and there are apps and scripts (including the softwareupdate command line tool that ships with macOS) for anyone to freely download these images for development and testing purposes. VirtualBox is a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use.For a thorough introduction to virtualization and VirtualBox.

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