hello and welcome to another tutorial from windows lovers.com this is your host brazwell
and in today's video i'm going to show you how you can install windows 11
preview on vmware workstation player alright so let's get started
in this tutorial i'm going to show you how to install windows 11 virtually inside windows
10 using a workstation player or vmware player at this stage i don't suggest anyone to install this
windows as a native or a primary operating system for your laptop or system because this is a early
early release and there's a lot of there can be a lot of bugs and there can be a lot of issues so
unless you have a spare laptop or a space system i suggest you install it virtually and just give
it a go and see if you really want to install it on your computer as a native system okay there's
two things you need there's an iso file and a workstation play installer you can get iso file
from anywhere on the internet and workstation player is free to download from vmware's website
so for this uh for this tutorial i'm going to use vmware registration 16 player which is available
free so i'll leave all the download links in the description uh i you will have to go and find
iso file uh from other sources um i'll only leave download link to vmware station player
so once you go to the website what you want to do is you want to scroll down and click on try
workstation 16 player for windows click on download now it will probably take a
couple of minutes for the download so once the download is completed what you want to do is
open the installer welcome to the setup wizard click on next accept the terms click on next next
and next and it will probably take a couple of minutes and like i said i there will be a
tutorial on how to install it natively on windows lovers.com blog but on this tutorial i'm not going
to go through on how to install it primarily or create a bootable usb and install it on your
system because your system will run into a lot of issues if you install it and as a native system
or primary open system but if you like to do so there will be a blog post on windowsloves.com
i'll leave the link to that blog post as well in the description once it's up
and as you can see uh this installation has completed so click on finish and you
can close that and close this as well so what you want to do now is so now let's open vmware
player and as you can see you can use vmware recognition player for free as long as it's a
non-commercial use so i'm going to use this on my personal computer not for any commercial use so
i'm just gonna click select that option and click on continue and click on finish and now the player
has opened and now what we're gonna do is we're gonna create a new virtual machine so click on new
virtual machine and you can select the iso file directly but what i'm going to do is i'm going to
go and click on i'll install the open system later click on next and to make sure the guest operating
system is selected to microsoft windows and windows 10 x64 click on next and you can name your
virtual machine and name anything so i'm going to name it as windows 11 dev and click on next
and you can either split virtual machine into multiple files or store in a single file so when
you select split so what happens is for the uh you will start with a certain size and as required by
the virtual machine the size of your virtual drive will increase as well so i select i'll select that
click on next and before you click on finish what you can do is now depending on your system
and depending on the resources your system has you can click on customers hardware and you can
increase the number of processor it's using and you can increase the amount of memory so at the
moment my system has eight gigs of memory so i'll probably give it a bit more than two gigs
and also number processors too which is fine out of i'm pretty sure i have
um out of number number [ __ ] process i'll give it about three core processes and click on close
so now if your system is very uh if you if you have an older system you don't want to give it
too much resources because your system will be very slow and the virtual machine will run very
slow as well so you can leave the system settings as it is or you can customize and depending on how
much you know about your resources you can you can sort of select that or you can come back later and
increase the resources as you prefer you can close click on finish and as you can see uh the virtual
machine has been created before you go and start or play a virtual machine what i want you to do
is click on edit virtual machine settings and now we're going to load the iso file so click on add
and select a cd slash dvd drive click on finish and under connection you want to go to use iso
image file click on browse and you want to go and load the iso file windows 11 iso file
click on open and click on ok right now when you start the virtual machine what happens is now
it's replicating the exact windows environment or another system okay so when you click on play
virtual machine setting it will start and now it says uh can i connect to virtual disk sata drive
so click on yes and it's giving you the install remind me later and as you can see it's run into
an error it's run into a timeout because uh it was giving you a prompt to press any key so it's like
installing windows but virtually so you gotta make sure that if you don't press anything our
uh our hard drive is empty and if you don't select press any key to install uh to start the installer
it will go and fail so what you wanna do if you run into this what you wanna do is go to this
settings and restart the guest and click on yes so you got to make sure that you press any key
before that prompt goes away so click on yes click on the screen and press any key and as you can see
the installation has now started okay so if you press ctrl and alt you'll get your mouse back
and if you click in the virtual machine that's uh if you click in the window
and then you will be able to give commands to that window and if you want to go back
you can just hover your mouse move your mouse or you can just press ctrl and alt at the same time
your mouse will go back to the normal windows so as you can see the setup has started click on next
click on install now now so like i said you're depending on the amount of resources your system
has this might be a bit slower for you and this is active with windows at the moment we're going
to just click on i don't have a product key and it'll give you different versions
of windows 10 so at the moment i'm going to go and install windows 11 pro click on next
click on accept click on next and there's two options uh what type installation do you want
upgrade or custom we're gonna go with custom installation and it says drive zero on a look
at this space what you wanna do is click on that drive click on new click on apply and click on
ok and this creates a hard disk for your windows installation click on the one that has the most
memory the other ones are reserved for booting purposes so click on next and now give us some
time depending on the resources it might take five or ten minutes if you have a really fast system
with ssd and enough ram and enough processors it probably will take only a few minutes please make
sure you give this video a thumbs up and subscribe for more tutorials and in the future i'm gonna go
through windows 11 news and windows 11 features and how to sort of properly use windows 11
and i'll also go through tutorials once it's officially released and how to actually boot it
um officially on windows 10. for anyone who is using an activated version of windows 10 this will
be a free upgrade so if you have windows 10 in the future once it's officially released for everyone
you'll be able to upgrade to windows 11 for free and we're just going to give this installation
a couple of minutes now the installation has completed and it's going to restart your system
and now the system is restarting at the bottom you can see it says vmware tools
um increases enables many features and improves mouse movement and video and performance so we
will do that once the installation is completed and it's it's highly suggested to install vmware
tools because it improves performance quite quite a lot so when it comes to your graphics when it
comes to your mouse and video input it helps out a lot now this is the welcome screen of windows 11
just give it a couple of minutes and it select your region i'm gonna select australia
click on yes click on us click on yes and it's going to skip that checking for updates
i will request you to add your microsoft accounts for this purpose this video i'm just going to
use a local account so for that click on sign in options and you'll see an offline account
let's click on limited experience enter full name i'm just going to name it as a test click on next
enter your password confirmation click on next it's gonna randomly enter the security
questions for now and it's up to you to to go through the settings and says i'm just gonna go
accept everything for now because this is gonna be a test system anyways it's checking for updates
again for the final time i guess and now finally you are getting logged into your windows 11 system
if you get into any issues or if you have any confusions regarding this
tutorial please make sure you leave any comments uh because i try to reply to each and every one
of your comments as well so as like i said this is not a native or a prime installation because
at the moment the windows 11 version is very unstable and there might be a lot of bugs
so unless you have a spare system or a spare laptop or such you don't want to install it as a
primary operating system and just you install it on a virtual machine like this and then give it
a go and see uh get it get a better feel of new features and see if you really want to transition
it once uh the official version will be released in coming months and there you have it this is
your windows 11. uh please subscribe or visit windows windows lovers.com for any um updates
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