Windows 11 Enterprise Virtual Machine images downloads
Windows 11 Enterprise virtual machine images are now available. You can download the images for several popular virtualization applications directly from Microsoft's Developer website.
Note that the virtual images include more than just a Windows 11 Enterprise installation. They are designed for developers and include several applications, e.g. Virtual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code. Developer Mode is also enabled automatically on these installations.
How to download Windows 11 Enterprise
Note that the title of the page is mentioning Windows 10 --Get a Windows 10 desktop environment -- but that the downloads are for Windows 11; this is likely something that Microsoft has overlooked and will address in the future.
To download the virtual machine images, do the following:
- Visit the Microsoft Developer website. The downloads are listed directly on the site that opens.
- Select one of the available Windows 11 Enterprise virtual machine images. All have a size of about 20 Gigabytes. The latest is the VMWare image, the smallest the Parallels image The following virtual images are provided:
- VMWare virtual image Windows 11 Enterprise.
- Hyper-V virtual image Windows 11 Enterprise.
- VirtualBox virtual image Windows 11 Enterprise.
- Parallels virtual image Windows 11 Enterprise.
- The download of the file starts immediately after one of the buttons is activated on the page.
The virtual machine images are set to expire on January 9, 2022 automatically. They contain a Windows 11 Enterprise installation with Windows Subsystem for Linux (Ubuntu) and Developer Mode enabled.
Windows Terminal, Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio 2019 and Windows 10 SDK version 2004 are installed as well.
The virtual machine images are designed primarily for developers, but none developers may use them as well to run Windows 11 Enterprise. Unless Enterprise is required specifically, it may be faster to download another edition of Windows 11 instead and create a virtual machine image manually using the downloaded ISO file.
Tip: check out our guide on downloading Windows 11 ISO images here.
Closing Words
The evaluation period feels rather short, considering that the images do expire in early January of 2022. Add the Holiday period of part of the globe to that, and you end up with just a few weeks in which the environment can be used in organizations.
Now You: what is your favorite Windows edition, and why? (via Deskmodder)
I dont trust ms ! They have taken user hardware hostage trough Pluto (cpu hardware implementaion, all modern intel CPUs from 8th gen forward – thats why they insist on TPM2 the unvisible backdoor to OS witk all the kill-switches in it, what ever MS like or do not they can read and steal data in real time and user wont notice ever) AMD also affected, thats why EU is devlopeing next gen Risc-V cpu on its own, US wants to take digital hostage everbody on the planet, thats why TRump has a problem with EU and China or everbody else who wont bow to that ! MS is the gatekeeper and user is slave on his own hardware, s o i newer ever download MS officials ISO’s, MS has full control on every user which runs win11. Now MS wants to own open source too ! Its a nightmare in progress ! Intel and AMD also some other mobo vendors have betray end user, ms is stealing from 5 to 25% of your hardware performance, throttling your hardware and u cant get performance out of it for python math physics and other app also games ! Now u know why your hardware is a junk ! Its taken hostage by ms and hardware vendors conspiracy, i’l be very careful which hardware i buy, what Trump and those tech giants are planing is a Orwellian digital surveillance nightmare in progress for the whole world even AI is being miss-used for that purpose ! Now for EU residents thats big time direct EU laws regulations, which Trump and other tech giants want away to happen. So basically u re not the owner of your own computer any more and ms dictates u cant be administrator, u cant run software ms doesnt like, and u re being policie 24/7 indefinetly and they mask all that for security reasons as they claim ! TMP2 is a huge backdoor when built in with pluto into hardware cpu u cant turn it off u cant controll it, basically u cant do nothing as clean cpu replacement doeasnt exists ! Stay tuned stay informed and start rebellion on US tech !!! If not u will be controlled and also punished when writing something against trum or other dictators and right wnger arroun the world ! Thats why MS is become dangerous ! They weaponized OS and hardware vendors are in conspirative agreements angainst every user on the planet ! The only hardware not infected is from TPM2 era ! So if u re buying new hardware u have buy your self a digital policemen and u cant do nothing about it ! U can run Linux on it but u cant shut down ms listening on that devices as embedded into hardware and being part of hardware ! Thats why Lenovo and Dell abandon MS ! Ask Ai about kernel tamper protection governed os policies in os (thats why administrator account in os is helpless), tracking and telemetrys and how ms i sneaking in to os ! U get the info u dont want to hear and why u cant run some software too and why your cpu isnt performant ! Its time to fight back !
Is there any way to do a Powershell to reset the timer for these virtual machines like the 3 x 90 day for the old Windows 10 VMs?
How do I set up and use the hyper-v version?
Why does this work on PCs that do not meet the requirement for Windows 11?
Upgrade to Windows 11 is stopped in VirtualBox because the PC requirements are not met, but I have no problem installing this Enterprise Trial version on the same PC. Why is that?
I really like LTSC 2021 :)
What’s your favorite updated bits?
I can’t say I have any. There is hardware accelerated GPU scheduling and direct storage support, also a toggle to force/attempt variable refresh rate on certain titles, I guess from Store, maybe normally unsupported.
Notepad defaults to UTF-8, finally!
Edge is installed by default, but it’s not the one which is glued to the OS, rather the installable one, and you can uninstall it from Control Panel.
Overall, I like it. My favourite is still LTSC 1507, although it saw very little support and has lots of unsolved issues. I suppose not having a Server counterpart shows.
Thanks for the response Y.
For me it seems to run a bit smoother overall,
although I have had several BSOD that I need to look into (watchdog timer errors).
I’ll thoroughly give it a test drive during the coming weeks.
Cheers