Plain Virtualization

You may encounter this screen when trying to install Official Release Windows 11 on VMware workstation or VMware Fusion. This message:  "The PC doesn't meet the minimum system requirements to install this version of Windows." If you head over to the system requirements for Windows 11, you will notice on significant item that caught my eye. It needs TPM. Lucky for VMware Workstation and Fusion, both has the ability to add a virtual TPM. But before you can add that you need to turn on Encryption and set a password for that. After that, Add Device... and choose Trusted Platform Module . Once that is done your can just power up and install away.

A great day 1 for VMworld 2021. If you have not manage to listen and attend to all the sessions, there were several project been announced. Here are a summary for those who missed it. A quick summary of some of the topics can be found here . Project Cascade (Tech Preview) A unified kubernetes interface across VMware Cloud for IaaS (infra) and CaaS (container). This in turn provide open CLI, API and GUI. This address the problem that developers have to learn a different interface for every cloud running kubenetes. With Project Cascade, developer only need to know one and run in any Cloud. With initial milestone for VM service on VMware Cloud. The good thing is this is build on open foundation. Read more about it here . Project Arctic (Tech Preview) This allows vSphere to have cloud connectivity giving it Cloud-aware. This is extremely useful for customer who are still running on prem workloads and leveraging the cloud for use case such as DR. This allows customers to consume VMware Clou