Windows 11 running as a guest on an Asus G771JM VirtualBox hypervisor.

However, some security features will no longer be available for obvious reasons. I’ve been running virtual instances of Windows 11 on unsupported hardware without any immediate issues.

The rest of the process is self-explanatory. Paste the script into a document and save that as MediaCreationTool.bat. Use the raw link to view the source code. The tool, known as MediaCreationTool.bat is available from AveYo’s Github repository. Every operation is performed using Microsoft-hosted source links without any third-party tools.Īuto-upgrading to Windows 11 using MediaCreationTool.bat. The tool will also allow you to create a Windows 11 Disk Image (ISO) that you can use to perform a fresh installation of Windows 11 in VirtualBox. The excellent Media Creation Tool wrapper script from AveYo will bypass the requirements and can even automate the entire upgrade process. It might be common knowledge among the more technical Windows users, but I had no idea that it was possible to bypass all these requirements without even fiddling with the Windows registry. No secure boot, no TPM, and no supported CPUs are no problem.

PC Health Check app verdict: This PC can’t be upgraded to Windows 11.Īs it turns out. To my dismay, my old Asus G771JM Arch Linux-powered host did not meet (by a long shot) the highly artificial requirements to run Windows 11. Understandably, I was burning with a desire to upgrade the Windows 10 virtual machines in my Testlab to the latest and greatest from Microsoft.

Windows 11 in virtualbox