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I believe the only way to get this to work is to use a USB bluetooth adapter and connect that to the guest with Fusion.  Then you can connect bluetooth devices directly to the guest. Honestly though, if there's any option to just hard wire it, I'd do that first.

Highly recommended to use the tech preview instead of Fusion 13 for Windows ARM at this point. One nuance, I still would suggest using the process in the unofficial guide to get the ISO to install it - neither of the official means are really good.  One gives you a build that expires, and the other doesn't work on Macs for the current windows releases.

Maybe. If you have an M1 (ARM) mac, then no, you can't.  If you're on an intel machine, read on: You can virtualize 10.6.8 (not 10.6.3) Server (not client) edition, but there may be issues getting the tools to install (the workaround seems to be to set the computer clock back to a date prior to 2018). The hardest thing is getting a hold of 10.6.8 Server install media - it's no longer available from Apple, and most internet sites are sketchy. Honestly, its vastly past time to move on from any solution that requires 10.6.8.  If you have the option to upgrade the other software, that's the better option.

The instructions in this:  https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Documents/The-Unofficial-Fusion-13-for-Apple-Silicon-Companion-Guide/ta-p/2939907 Will help you obtain and install the ISO for Windows 11 ARM.  Everything else you might find is outdated, inaccurate, incomplete, or problematic.  

If you read the release notes, official guide, and unofficial guide you'll see that the vmware tools have only limited functionality right now.  Specifically, the graphics drivers do not include 3d acceleration. We hope/expect to have updated tools sometime soon, best guess is that we'll get an update after WWDC, so figure late June or early July for full support.

Your VM will work on any Intel based machine (apple stopped making those last year).  I'd suggest getting the most recent Intel machine you can afford so that you have security updates for as long as possible. You will need to upgrade to the supported version of Fusion for your OS.

Not Fusion snapshots - time machine/APFS snapshots  inside the guest OS.   The command to find them is tmutil listlocalsnapshots / from terminal inside the guest then you tmutil deletelocalsnapshots / to purge them

Unfortunately, sleeping the host doesn't reliably sleep the guest.  The best option is to change the 'prevent sleep when screen blanks' and set the machine to not sleep. With the screen off, the power use is negligible.

Ok, so obviously Fusion and Apple won't support that system. That said, even with supported 10gb thunderbolt connectors, Fusion's virtual network is limited to 1GB.  There's no way around that.  The only option is to bypass the fusion network stack and have the USB connector connected to the guest OS itself. 10g on workstations is still somewhat rare.  I'm sure it's on their radar, but given all the other things in the queue, wouldn't hold my breath for it soon.

ARRRGH, it's SO frustrating that this stupid forum software won't let you edit replies...ignore the last two.   The unoffiical guide to Fusion, posted in the documents section of this forum, has instructions that have worked for thousands of people. So if there's something on your setup that's not working, it's unique to your setup. shift-fn-F10 should work - unless you have switched the keyboard preferences on the host, or are using an external keyboard that's not configured properly.

If, as I presume, you're running Fusion 13, and search the forum, you'll find another thread (on the first page, 8 posts below yours, at the moment) with other users reporting the same thing. In that thread, a VMWare employee confirmed it's a regression. The workaround is to regress to Version 12 (if you can).