I am running windows 11 Virtual machine using VMware tech preview. Everything is fine. But file transfer between guest and host is not possible for me. I read it needs VMware tools. But install VMware tools option is greyed out. Any one using same windows 11 vm like me. If so how about guest, host file transfer?
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vmware tếch preview Windows 11 vm - file transfer between guest and host
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VMWare doesn't support Windows on an M1 variant Mac. Parallels is a better bet.
VMware doesn't have a Tools version for ARM Windows because they don't support using Windows in the Fusion Tech Preview. The only way you'd be able to do file transfer would be via a USB drive or network file sharing.
There is a tech preview that works with Linux. They aren't supporting Windows because Microsoft has declined to license the Windows 11 on Arm version.
Yes. People can get Windows running in the Fusion Tech Preview on Apple Silicon, but it has limitations and isn't supported by VMware.
Yes but that has nothing to do whether or not VMWare is running on Apple silicon. It is a licensing limitation. The VM works fine and appears to be complete.
You can read the VMWare Fusion blog entries for more information.
VMware Fusion for Apple silicon Public Tech Preview Now Available
Fusion on Apple Silicon: Progress Update
Not complete -- there are no VMWare integration tools available for Windows on Arm.
You are correct since Windows is unsupported. But since the tools are available for Linux and are probably pretty portable to compile for AArch64, it is still likely just because of the licensing issue.
It's a bit more than that as the tools aren't identical between Windows and Linux, but that's kind of irrelevant as it is a licensing issue as to why VMWare doesn't release tools for Windows. (The tools are mostly drivers)
I'm sure that VMWare would release the tools and start supporting Windows on Arm the day Microsoft allows us to purchase Windows on Arm at retail.