I gave the VM the name “Windows 10”, added a note that this is “Windows 10 on Apple Silicon”, and added an optional operating system icon (see image below).īrowse the “CD/DVD Drive” to find the SPICE Guest Tools ISO file and open it Now comes the fun part! With UTM open on your M1 Mac, click the Create a New Virtual Machine button. It is recommended you do this with a fresh VHDX from Microsoft in case your image was already corrupted. Run qemu-img convert -p -O qcow2 /path/to/Windows10_InsiderPreview_Client_ARM64_en-us_21286.VHDX /path/to/output/Windows10_InsiderPreview_Client_ARM64_en-us_21286.qcow2 replacing the paths with your own.Install Homebrew if you do not have it already.Currently, UTM does not provide this functionality in the UI so you have to do it directly from QEMU. To work around this issue, it is recommended that you convert the VHDX image to a QCOW2 image. This would result in BSOD or random application crashes/errors. Here’s what the UTM team had to say about the conversion (from ):ĭue to an issue with QEMU handling of VHDX images, sometimes Windows will be corrupted from normal usage. There’s a new critical step - that file must be converted to QCOW2 format. UPDATE: In a previous version of this article, UTM booted from the VHDX file to install Windows. SPICE Guest Tools are a collection of utilities and drivers to aid running Windows on Apple Silicon. The Windows link downloads a VHDX (Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk) with the installer. Download each file to your Mac prior to starting the installation. Links to the software components appear in the Gallery. Those consist of an Apple Silicon Mac, UTM for Mac, Windows for ARM, and SPICE Guest Tools. Click Windows 10 in the Gallery to display a web page showing requirements.
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