Cannot Install OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 (ARM) on VMWare Fusion 13/MacBook Air (M2 chip)

[liiuzy]

Hi,

I am suing MacBook Air with M2 chip, I have download and installed the latest Fusion 13 (universal edition) on my M2 MacBook Air. I try to install OpenSUSE Leap 15.4 (ARM edition) on Fusion 13, but failing, I was prompted as below, but I am quite sure I am using the ARM iso file of OpenSUSE Lead 15.4 as I download from the official OpenSUSE site.

This virtual machine cannot be powered on because it requires the X86 machine architecture, which is incompatible with this Arm machine architecture host. See KB-84273.

Fusion 13 cannot support OpenSUSE 15.4?

I hope I can get support here, thank you all.

[Technogeezer]

Leap 15.4 arm64 does work, but you’ve hit a Fusion bug that creates a bad virtual machine configuration when using the “drag and drop the installer ISO” method of creating a Leap arm64 virtual machine. 

See the Unofficial Fusion 13 for Apple Silicon Companion that has a more detailed explanation of what’s going on and how to create a Leap VM that will work. 

[liiuzy]

Hi, thanks for the reply, Finally, I create openSUSE 15.4 virtual machines successfully, this is not caused by Fusion or ISO file, this is caused by the strange interacted behavior during the VM setup.