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How to run Windows 11 on ARM in QEMU 6.1 on Apple Silicon Mac

How to run Windows 11 on ARM in QEMU 6.1 on Apple Silicon Mac

  1. Follow the excellent gist here, up to and including step 7 : https://gist.github.com/niw/e4313b9c14e968764a52375da41b4278

  2. I converted my VHDX to qcow2 - I doubt if that's significant, but YMMV:

./qemu-img convert -p -O qcow2 ~/Windows11_InsiderPreview_Client_ARM64_en-us__22454-orig.VHDX Windows11.img
  1. Run qemu with a slightly modified command-line. It may not be the most efficient, but it worked for me: