

I personally assign the accent key on the top left of the keyboard as this key and it works great.Īs far as I know, there is not a Windows ISO one can use here. And, like Parallels Desktop running on M1 Macs, this M1 version of Fusion can only run the ARM version of Windows which itself is still in its preview phase. in virtualized environments including Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion.
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Given Orca, like many other screen readers, uses the caps lock key as a screen reader key, you’ll want to use VMWare preferences to assign another key as caps lock. 9 or any version of Mac OS 9, Mac OS 8 and. I had no issues doing this with two different Linux distributions and have them working with both speech and braille and the Orca screen reader.

The preview doesn’t seem to support automatic OS install so when installing an OS on a virtual machine, you’ll need to go through a manual install. Mac Pro M1 (ARM) installation: VMware fusion and Linux (centos7 / ubantu) (I).

Creating VMs, management of the machines and the other tasks you would want to do are all working well. The software itself works for me as well as it has on Intel-based Macs with VoiceOver. However, unlike Parallels for M1 Macs, VMware Fusion for Apple Silicon will not ship with official support for Windows 10 or Windows 11. If you need a Linux VM that's very much possible on Apple Silicon, and it works well using the VMware Fusion Tech Preview. A public tech preview will be made available in a few weeks. An Intel Mac (VMware Fusion) or a PC with Windows or Linux (VMware Workstation). So far my trial of the preview has been quite successful. If you need a Windows VM you need to run a suitable version of VMware on an x86 platform, meaning Intel or AMD processor. Full details and a download are available in this blog post. Fusion uses Apple Metal graphics technology to render 3D hardware-accelerated graphics to virtual machines on compatible Mac For now. VMWare has just added a new entry into the tools available with a technical preview for VMWare Fusion running on Apple silicon hardware. I’ve written a few times here about virtual machines.
