Create a Virtual Machine

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How you create a virtual machine depends on its guest operating system. Virtual machines created using Fusion 6 and later are created with SATA virtual disks or CD drives.

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Creating a Microsoft Windows Virtual Machine
You can create a virtual machine that uses a Microsoft Windows operating system as its guest operating system.
Download and Install Windows 11 as Guest Operating System on Apple Silicon Mac
You can now download and install Windows 11 on your Apple Silicon Mac from the Fusion user interface.
Download and Generate Windows 11 ISO Using the Command-line Interface
You can now download the Windows 11 ESD file and generate a Windows 11 ISO file via the command-line user interface using the vmw_esd2iso tool bundled with Fusion.
Creating a Linux Virtual Machine in Fusion
You can create a virtual machine that uses a Linux distribution as its guest operating system.
Creating a macOS Virtual Machine in Fusion
You can install Mac OS X, OS X, or macOS in a virtual machine. Fusion creates the virtual machine, opens the operating system installation assistant, and installs VMware Tools. VMware Tools loads the drivers required to optimize a virtual machine's performance.
Creating a Shared Virtual Machine in Fusion
You can create a shared virtual machine in Fusion that can be accessed by all users on the local Mac host.
Create a Virtual Machine from a Mac Recovery Partition
You can use the recovery partition on your Mac to create virtual machines running macOS.
Create a Virtual Machine on a Remote Server
You can create a virtual machine on a remote server, but certain requirements must be met for the server.
Create a Virtual Machine for Any Supported Operating System
You can create a virtual machine with a guest operating system that does not have an Easy Install option if the guest operating system is supported by Fusion.
Power On the Boot Camp Partition as a Virtual Machine
You can use the contents of your Boot Camp partition at the same time that you are running your Mac operating system. To do so, you use Fusion to power on the Boot Camp partition as a virtual machine.
Activate Windows in a Virtual Machine
In some cases you must activate Windows when you create, import, or migrate a virtual machine.

Parent topic: Creating Virtual Machines

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