Since the release of Fusion 13 the Tech Preview should be considered obsolete. There is no need to use it any longer.
Simply stated, an Apple Silicon chip is not an Intel chip. The two are totally different and don’t execute the same hardware instructions. Apple Silicon can not run an operating system (either on bare metal or under a virtualization product like Fusion) that needs an Intel chip. That’s why you can’t move a virtual machine from you Intel Mac and expect it to work.
The only reason applications built for Intel Macs can run on Apple Silicon Macs is because Apple built a translator - Rosetta 2. Rosetta was not built to support running Intel virtual machines because that’s a much harder problem to solve with acceptable performance
You will need to install Windows 11 ARM (the Windows version that runs on Windows ARM PCs like some Surface models) under Fusion on an Apple Silicon Mac, and reinstall all of your application - and see if they will run on Microsoft’s Intel translator built into Windows 11 (similar to Rosetta 2 on macOS).
You may wish to review the following two documents that help explain the situation and what your options are:
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Documents/Running-Fusion-on-an-Intel-Mac-and-upgradi...
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Documents/The-Unofficial-Fusion-13-for-Apple-Silicon...
- Paul (Technogeezer)
Editor of the Unofficial Fusion Companion Guides
