What operating system(s) are you running in VMs on your current MacBook Pro?
As I implied in the list at my end of the previous post, if you are planning to move to an M2 MacBook Pro next year, it will not be possible to use any of your existing virtual machines on the new Mac, because the virtual machine must use the same core architecture as the processor of the host computer.
Your existing 2014 MacBook Pro has an Intel (x86) processor and VMware Fusion on that Mac can run virtual machines with x86-based operating systems (such as Windows 10 or earlier, older macOS versions, and x86 variants of Linux).
Your future M2 MacBook Pro has an Apple Silicon (ARM) processor and VMware Fusion 13 on that Mac would be able to run virtual machines with ARM-based operating systems, but not x86-based operating systems.
The initial release of VMware Fusion 13 running on an M1/M2 is mainly for running ARM variants of Linux, plus it has limited support for the ARM variant of Windows 11 (with some fiddling required and some missing features). macOS guests are not yet supported.
By the time you get your M2 MBP, a later update of VMware Fusion 13 may be available with better ARM Windows 11 and ARM Linux support, but we don't know whether macOS guest support will be coming any time soon (if it was, it would be limited to running macOS Monterey or later as a guest). Older macOS and Windows versions are out of the question, as are any other x86 operating systems (such as x86 Windows 11 or Linux variants).
