

W11 requires an UEFI BIOS, encryption of it, and adding a special item called “Trusted Platform Module” It also requires you remove all your Snapshots to do this. You cannot upgrade a W10 licensed Windows to W11 with the free Fusion 13 Player, the personal free version of Fusion, if you are running the Legacy BIOS version of W10 which is highly likely. They will not issue a product key to you if you have a licensed W10 and wish to start fresh with a new virtual machine running W11 unless you pay µsoft $200 for a new Windows Pro license. Here are the experiences, issues and tips.Īfter several days of talking to Microsoft (µsoft) support, for a working product key, with multiple transfers, being hung up on multiple times and failed commitments to call me back, they finally revealed to me that the only way for a W10 free upgrade to W11 is to upgrade an existing licensed version. After much anguish I finely got a working licensed version running under Fusion 13 Player. I have literally spent days trying to get a transition to Windows 11 (W11) from an existing W10 legitimate and properly licensed upgrade from a much older version. My Windows 11 Upgrade Using Fusion 13 Journey Continues: Make a copy of that Windows VM before attempting the upgrade to Windows 11. Your existing Windows 10 product key should activate Windows 11. But… there are Windows things you are going to need to do before switching the Fusion firmware to UEFI.

If you don’t have the VM running with UEFI firmware, you’re going to need to change that - secure boot doesn’t work with BIOS firmware. Just choose the encryption option to encrypt only the parts of the VM that support the vTPM device. That way you do not have to encrypt the entire VM to enable the TPM device. Also, I’m not sure if the Windows 10 product key will work or how to get a new one if it does not as my upgrade to Windows 10 from my previous version was free and easy. Either that or encrypt the Windows 10, install the TPM and then install Windows 11 to it from the ISO. I am guessing that either you have to make a new Virtual Windows 11 then somehow migrate your info over to it. #1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browserĪlso has anyone done an upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11 on Intel? I found the info to create a new virtual machine but not for an upgrade from existing Windows 10.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.#1660: OS updates for sports and security, Drobo in bankruptcy, why TidBITS doesn't cover rumors.#1661: Mimestream app for Gmail, auto-post WordPress headlines to Twitter and Mastodon, My Photo Stream shutting down.
