


These are just more fleshed out steps from a brief overview in the VMware Fusion communities online forums.That said there is no clean clear supported long-term path for doing so. It is clear that M1 Mac grossly outperforms any of the "legit" Windows ARM solutions as well as Windows on Intel so I understand the desire to use Windows ARM on M1 Mac. Those are your (and everyone elses) choices in this matter. Given that VMware accepts that Microsoft and Apple have declared they will not support Windows ARM on Mac M1, if the Windows quits working in Fusion VMware is not going to try to fix it. People are finding they can make Windows ARM previews run on the Fusion ARM Preview and then RDP the Windows VM to use it full-screen. VMware has chosen not to support Windows in their Fusion Preview for M1 Mac given Microsoft and Apple's collective decision. If always running on Windows previews with the risk that Parallels has to keep this unsupported combination working with no assistance from Microsoft or Apple otherwise meets your needs then there you are. Note that so far you will never have a licensed general availability Windows release for M1 Mac as neither Microsoft nor Apple want it to exist. Parallels "solves this problem" by directing you to sign up for the Windows Insider Program and then you can run Windows ARM preview releases on your M1 Mac. Microsoft does not sell a license for Windows on ARM for M1 Macs. Apple and Microsoft have both stated they will not support Windows on M1 Macs. You thus have to be able to run the ARM versions of other operating systems for M1 Macs. The basic situation is that you cannot run x86-64 or Intel on M1 Macs.
