Hopefully we'll get a nice surprise at some point this year, but step one is Fusion for ARM guests. My crystal ball is pretty cloudy on that - the only thing it shows is that anyone who needs intel workloads for the foreseeable future needs to use an intel machine. The open question is will Apple either enable/allow/support Fusion using Rosetta 2, or will VMWare decide they want to be in the emulation rather than virtualization business. It's a bit of a moot point as well, since it's only licensed to OEM's. The best short term bet is Microsoft's x86 emulation inside of Windows ARM (which is akin to Rosetta) but it isn't very good at the moment. But that's only a portion of the work required to be able to emulate a CPU for an entire operating system.

Getting an emulator right is extremely difficult, and what Apple's been able to do with Rosetta 2 is pretty impressive. I also tried to install earlier version of Mac OS and even Windows 10 but always get the same message.ĭo you have any idea or any suggestion ? I'm glad I did not buy it yet since I tend to doubt the real compatibility of the product.Īctually, it *is* rocket science.

But it still crashes with the same error on my MacBook. I've tried to migrate the VM created on the iMac and to create a new VM from scratch using Apple MacOS 10.6 server installer. When I try the same process on the MacBook, I get an error (in French) that translates like this: 'Fail to activate /Users/myuser/Documents/MacOSX.vmwarevm/Mac OS X Server 10.6 64 bits.vmx' The installation runs well on the iMac and the old Mac OS version is running smoothly. The version 12 is said to be compatible with both Big Sur and M1 chip. I've 2 computers : one iMac Pro running Big Sur and one brand new MacBook Pro with M1 chip also running Big Sur. I'm new at VMWare Fusion, I've downloaded the trial version of Fusion Pro for Mac OS to run an old version of Mac OS (10.6 server). I'll have to find another way to run my old business application. Update : Ok, after some more digging, I finally understand that Fusion is not compatible with M1 chip for the time being.

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