This tech preview has a smaller feature scope but with plenty of under-the-hood changes, enhanced security, and improvements the CLI and REST API to support Windows 11.

Here are the areas where we'd like feedback from the community:

• Virtual Trusted Platform Module Support with OVF Import/Export
• VTPM and Encrypted VM with vmrun and vmrest

Virtual Hardware version 21

New VMs are created with Virtual Hardware Version 21 which has a number of under-the-hood improvements, including NVMe 1.3 support.