I can confirm what @bSr_43 has seen. I guess VMware forgot to test the feature in languages other than English?
As a work-around if you don't want to switch the system back to English, use the command line version - it's documented in the in-product help as well as the online "Using VMware Fusion" documentation.
You will need to find and mount the windows.iso for arm64 in order to inject the video and network drivers. Running the vmw_esd2iso command without arguments will not only give you the command line syntax, but will point you to where the ISO is that you should mount. You don't need to move the drivers to a temp file, you can use them from the mounted VMware Tools ISO.
First download the ESD that you want:
/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmw_esd2iso getesd --edition edition-name --lang language-tag
where
- edition-name is either "Professional: for an ESD that contains Home and Professional editions, or "Enterprise" for an ESD that contains goth Enterprise and Professional editions. The quotes are required.
- language-tag is the language tag (not the language name) of the ESD that you want. Examples are en-us for US English, en-gb for UK English, fr-fr for French. The list of supported languages for Windows 11 can be found at https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/available-language-packs-for-... - note that when you use the language tags in the command they are in all lower case.
The command will download the ESD to the current directory, and then tell you what the name of the ESD file is. You'll use that in the next step.
Now generate the ISO from the ESD that you just downloaded plus the drivers from the windows.iso VMware Tools that you should already have mounted.
/Applications/VMware\ Fusion.app/Contents/Library/vmw_esd2iso generateiso --esd path-to-esdfile --drivers "/Volumes/VMware Tools/svga,/Volumes/VMware Tools/vmxnet3"
- Paul (Technogeezer)
Editor of the Unofficial Fusion Companion Guides
