README for w11arm_esd2iso 4.0.2  (13-July-2023)
Original source -> https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Documents/w11arm-esd2iso-a-utility-to-create-Windows-11-ARM-ISOs-from/ta-p/2957381

SUMMARY

This utility is designed to create ISO installation media for Windows 11 ARM from 
ESD files in Microsoft's software distribution infrastructure.
The resulting ISO can be used to install Windows 11 ARM virtual machines on VMware 
Fusion 13 on Apple Silicon. 

This utility will not be necessary when either Microsoft provides a Windows 11 ARM ISO 
for end-user download or VMware provides a way to create the ISO in their Fusion product 
like Parallels does.

CONTENTS OF ZIP FILE

Contents of the downloaded zip file:

	- README - (this document)
	- w11arm_esd2iso (the utilituy)
	- w11arm_esd2iso_manpage.pdf (PDF version of documentation in man(1) format.
	- doc (other documentation and GPL licensing notices)
	- bin (required open source utilities)
	- lib (libraries for required open source utiltiies)

CHANGES IN V4.0.2

	Version 4.0.2 fixes a bug where installation of an open-source version of 'tar' 
	through Homebrew or MacPorts caused a failure to extract the Windows 11 catalog of
	available downloads. This bug is fixed by explicitly invoking the 'tar' utility
	using its full path instead of relying on it being found through the PATH variable.
	
See the CHANGELOG document in the doc folder for changes made in prior versions.

EXAMPLES

Here is an example of the new process to build an en-us (US English) using the new
interactive features:

% ./w11arm_esd2iso   
[INFO] Bundled utilities are being used.

Do you want to create an ISO containing Windows 11 ARM Home/Professional editions
or Professional/Enterprise editions?

Enter 'h' to create a Home/Professional ISO
      'e' to create a Professional/Enterprise ISO
      'q' to quit: h

Windows 11 ARM Home/Professional ISO will be created.

Please wait while information is being downloaded from Microsoft for the Home/Professional ESDs
Processing complete


Please select a language for your Windows 11 ARM ISO.

Available Windows 11 ARM languages are:

Language tag         Language                      
------------         --------------------          
bg-bg                Bulgarian (Bulgaria)          
cs-cz                Czech (Czechia)               
da-dk                Danish (Denmark)              
de-de                German (Germany)              
el-gr                Greek (Greece)                
en-gb                English (United Kingdom)      
en-us                English (United States)       
es-es                Spanish (Spain, International Sort)
es-mx                Spanish (Mexico)              
et-ee                Estonian (Estonia)            
fi-fi                Finnish (Finland)             
fr-ca                French (Canada)               
fr-fr                French (France)               
he-il                Hebrew (Israel)               
hr-hr                Croatian (Croatia)            
hu-hu                Hungarian (Hungary)           
it-it                Italian (Italy)               
ja-jp                Japanese (Japan)              
ko-kr                Korean (Korea)                
lt-lt                Lithuanian (Lithuania)        
lv-lv                Latvian (Latvia)              
nb-no                Norwegian Bokmål (Norway)    
nl-nl                Dutch (Netherlands)           
pl-pl                Polish (Poland)               
pt-br                Portuguese (Brazil)           
pt-pt                Portuguese (Portugal)         
ro-ro                Romanian (Romania)            
ru-ru                Russian (Russia)              
sk-sk                Slovak (Slovakia)             
sl-si                Slovenian (Slovenia)          
sr-latn-rs           Serbian (Latin, Serbia)       
sv-se                Swedish (Sweden)              
th-th                Thai (Thailand)               
tr-tr                Turkish (Turkey)              
uk-ua                Ukrainian (Ukraine)           
zh-cn                Chinese (Simplified, China)   
zh-tw                Chinese (Traditional, Taiwan) 
                                                   

Enter a language tag from the 'Language Tag' colummn of the list,
'list' to reprint the list of languages, or
'quit' to exit the program: en-us

Step 1: Getting information about the requested en-us ESD file

Selected language of the ISO is en-us
The generated ISO will be ./22621.1702.230505-1222.ni_release_svc_refresh_CLIENTCONSUMER_RET_A64FRE_en-us.iso

Step 1 complete

Step 2: Downloading ESD from Microsoft
ESD Download attempt 1

06/27 23:14:17 [NOTICE] Downloading 1 item(s)
[#8e6e62 4.0GiB/4.0GiB(99%) CN:1 DL:25MiB]                                                                          
06/27 23:16:55 [NOTICE] Download complete: ./esd2iso_temp.6w9WAj/22621.1702.230505-1222.ni_release_svc_refresh_CLIENTCONSUMER_RET_A64FRE_en-us.esd

Download Results:
gid   |stat|avg speed  |path/URI
======+====+===========+=======================================================
8e6e62|OK  |    26MiB/s|./esd2iso_temp.6w9WAj/22621.1702.230505-1222.ni_release_svc_refresh_CLIENTCONSUMER_RET_A64FRE_en-us.esd

Status Legend:
(OK):download completed.

Step 2 complete - ESD downloaded

Step 3: Building installation image from ESD distribution

Applying boot files to the image
Boot files successfully applied to image

Adding WinPE and Windows Setup to the image
WinPE and Windows Setup added successfully to image


Adding Windows 11 Home to the image
Windows 11 Home added successfully to the image

Adding Windows 11 Home Single Language to the image
Windows 11 Home Single Language added successfully to the image

Adding Windows 11 Pro to the image
Windows 11 Pro added successfully to the image

All Windows editions added to image

Step 3 complete - installation image built

Step 4: Creating ISO ./22621.1702.230505-1222.ni_release_svc_refresh_CLIENTCONSUMER_RET_A64FRE_en-us.iso from the installation image

Creating hybrid image...
....................................................................................................................

Step 4 complete - ISO created

Cleaning up work directory
Done!
 

LEGAL

w11arm_esd2iso is Copyright (C) 2023 Paul Rockwell

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA

QUESTIONS?

Any questions about this utility should be posted to the VMware Fusion forum: 
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion/ct-p/3005-home

FOUND A BUG?

If you find an error please report it in a new post in the VMware Fusion forum
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion/ct-p/3005-home 

When you report an error, please re-create it by running w11arm_esd2iso with the 
-v (verbose) option, capture the output in a text document, and create a zip file 
containing the output. Attach that zip file to your post in the VMware Fusion forum.

It is preferred that you do NOT submit bug reports to the VMware Fusion Documents forum post 
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Documents/w11arm-esd2iso-a-utility-to-create-Windows-11-ARM-ISOs-from/ta-p/2957381
where you found this utility. Replies in the VMware Fusion Documents forum do not have 
the ability to attach zip files containing logging that can help resolve the issue.