![]() ![]() Once it’s done, you’ll end up with an ISO file that you can use with VMware Fusion: The whole process is pretty quick (faster than downloading the ESD file). With everything exported into the right place (the temporary folder), now we just need to bundle it up into a bootable ISO. If you want a different image, change the $osImage and $osImageName variables at the top of the script. In this case, since I wanted Windows 11 Pro, I chose index 6: Since this particular ESD file contains three separate OSes, we need to pick the one we want. Now we need to export the OS image itself. This image contains Windows PE and the setup files for doing the Windows 11 install: Next, it exports the third image from the same ESD file into \Sources\boot.wim in that same temporary folder. This image contains the files needed for boot media: So what does this do? It extracts the first image index from the downloaded ESD file into a temporary folder. So much simpler than that batch file (but it is doing quite a bit less, so I will cut it a little slack - the batch file also does all sorts of things to merge ESD files, remove apps, apply updates, etc., none of which I really need for this). ![]() Here’s my quick-and-dirty take on it (see the attached zip file below for the source): (Seriously, who writes batch files like this any more?)īut studying what that batch file does, I think it can be converted to PowerShell fairly easily, at least as long as you have the ADK installed to provide the tools you need (and run this on Windows, of course). The only trick is that last step: What utility can you use to do that conversion? Parallels is using an “esd2iso” command line utility, and the UUPDump site uses one of the nastiest batch files I’ve seen in a long time. For example, these are the en-us images of interest: Pick the ESD file that you want and download it.That XML file contains a list of all the Windows 11 21H2 ESD files (client/retail and business/VL) in all languages. Download the file and extract the XML file from within it.Fortunately, it doesn’t take much effort to figure that out (with Fiddler to help). ![]() I was trying out Parallels Desktop 18’s new feature that allows it to automatically download Windows 11 for ARM64 to install a new VM, and wondered how exactly that worked. ![]()
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