intel to m1

[terazawa1]

Can I transfer data from my intel fusion to my m1 fusion on my mac?

[scott28tt]

Thread reported so moderators know to move it, since it has nothing to do with a vSphere security advisory.

There is a Tech Preview version of Fusion which works on M1 Macs, but even if you install it and copy your VM files over it won't start those VMs - it only runs VMs which use an Arm-based OS, not those which use an x86-based OS. Learn more here: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Fusion-for-Apple-Silicon-Tech/ct-p/3022

[terazawa1]

Thank you.

I would like to consider other methods.
For example.
Is it possible to make an EC2 instance of aws work with vmware in some way?

[ColoradoMarmot]

Not sure what you're trying to accomplish.  That's a cloud platform, so you can just connect to it from the Mac itself.

[Mikero]

What some users are doing is setting up an Intel NUC, installing ESXi on that, and accessing it remotely with Fusion (will require a 'pro' license for this use case when we GA Apple silicon support later this year).

https://www.highcaffeinecontent.com/blog/20220325-Intel-Virtualization-and-Apple-Silicon 

(Note I do not condone macOS VMs on non-Apple hardware...)

[fabienmagagnosc]

Actually from Intel VMware fusion to M1 VMware fusion it’s not possible as they don’t use the same architecture (amd64 versus aarch64)

but you can from Intel VMware fusion to AWS (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vm-import/latest/userguide/vmimport-image-import.html), it’s not perfect as you in fact need to add certain packages to optimise your processing/performance in AWS environment, but it’s workable (we used it)

for M1 VMware fusion to AWS ARM I still didn’t tested it (we are already having issue to run our workload and dev environment … it’ll come later) but logically, it’ll be the same process, meaning using standard OVF and transfer them there when ready