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Dekowal
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‎03-21-2021 07:17 PM

Will Fusion 12 ever run natively on Apples new M1 chip?

I was told at the Apple Genius Bar that VMware would run on my new Mac Mini that uses the new M1 Chip.  Seems like from the documentation about Fusion 12 that it won’t run on the M1.  Anyone have an answer?   Would Rosetta enable it to run?

 

thanks,

 

Dan

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scott28tt
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‎03-21-2021 10:49 PM

Read this thread: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Discussions/Upgrade-to-Big-Sur-and-can-t-run-VMWare-...

 


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ColoradoMarmot
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‎03-22-2021 07:43 AM

Not right now at all.  They are working on a version that will virtualize the ARM CPU for ARM guests.  But there's no expectation that we will ever be able to run Intel guests.

 

more details here: https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Discussions/vmware-fusion-on-m1-goal/m-p/2837097#M17...

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Nextissimo
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‎03-24-2021 03:31 AM

Hi, You can read this HW requirements page : https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/2005196?lang=en_US

It seems that VMW official statement is : Mac running on non-x86 processors are not supported ( Example : Apple Macs with M1 ).

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