You do this by selecting 'Advanced'Ĭlick the 'Disable Side Channel Mitigations' checkbox Optionally you can disable side channel mitigations to improve the performance (but obviously lower its security posture) of the VM. Select 'Trusted Platform Module' and click 'Add.'Īcknowledge the information pane and click on 'Show All' You can do this by going back to all settings and clicking ' Add Device.' on the top right Next we need to add a Trusted Platform Module as that is a prerequisite for Windows 11. Next click on 'Encryption' and enter a password of your choice Instead of selecting Finish, go ahead and click Customize Settings if you want to change the name of the VM or the location of the files, if not, click Finish. Select UEFI and optionally UEFI Secure Boot Next we run Fusion and create a new VM using the 'install from disc or image' option. Follow the steps below to avoid the dreaded 'this machine is not compatible with Windows 11' message because a (v)TPM is missing by default.įirst step is to acquire an ISO image which you can find here: I needed a Windows 11 VM to do some testing and since I currently don't have any Windows hardware anymore I decided to use VMware Fusion on my (intel) mac instead.

Mac os x in vmware 11