Insert your Microsoft Windows 7 CD or DVD into your CD/DVD drive.A New Virtual Machine Assistant window appears.

In the Welcome window, click Create Virtual Machine.

Notethat you can cancel the installation of Windows at any time.

Launch VMware Fusion on your Mac and follow these steps to load Microsoft Windows 7.

Obtain a copy of Microsoft Windows 7 and Microsoft Office from the VUIT software store.

On the Installation completed successfully screen, click Close.

On the Serial Number screen, enter the serial number provided to you when you purchased the VMware Fusion software.

If prompted, enter your password to authorize the software installation.

On the Standard Install on Macintosh HD screen, click Install.

On the Select a Destination screen, select the volume where you want to install VMware Fusion.

A pop-up window appears requiring you to explicitly agree to the license terms.

On the Software License Agreement screen, read through the agreement, print and/or save a copy if you wish, then click Continue.

On the Welcome to the VMware Fusion Installed screen, click Continue.

A window entitled Install VMware Fusion appears.

Are you sure you want to continue?' Click Continue. If the following warning appears, This package contains a program that determines if the software can be installed. Are you sure you want to open it? Click Open. If the following warning appears, Install VMware Fusion' is an application which was downloaded from the Internet.

Download the software to your computer over the network.

Purchase and install on your Intel-based Macintosh computer a copy of VMware Fusion from from an alternative comapny.

MacOS X + VMware Fusion + Microsoft Windowsįollow these instructions to install VMware Fusion and Microsoft Windows on your Intel-based Macintosh computer running Mac OS X.

MacOS X + VMware Fusion + Microsoft Windows.

Which would be a shame given how well Parallel works on Catalina. At least that is going to be usable for more than 12 months and will support more than a single major release of macOS. If v15 is not going to work on Big Sur I am definitely going to abandon Parallels again and purchase a VMware Fusion Pro license. I have just recently purchased a license and am definitely not interested in a) a yearly software subscription, or b) yearly mandatory paid upgrades because they refuse to support their software for more than 12 months or more than one major macOS release. I really hope that Parallels is going to continue supporting v15 on Big Sur. Microsoft has a fairly extensive algorithm to determine when a re-activation is required. It probably depends on the amount and extent of virtual hardware changes. However, when I first migrated a Windows 10 VM von VirtualBox to Parallels on my iMac it did. I migrated two VMs from VirtualBox to Fusion (1x Windows 7, 1x Windows 10) on my MacBook, which did not trigger Activation.

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