@mikesilv wrote:
I've submitted a bug to Apple, using my dev account, to suggest that their hypervisor may not be properly recognizing the capabilities of certain Intel CPUs. Not, that now they probably care much. Perhaps, if you folks at VMWare contact them, they'd care slightly...but probably not much...more.
I wish you luck on that with Apple, but I fear you're going to face an uphill battle. The MacBook Pro running that Intel chip was last supported by Monterey, and Apple isn't putting any effort Into "bug fixes/enhancements" to Monterey other than selective security fixes.
More importantly, the ship is sailing on Intel support from Apple. It's clear that their priorities are on Apple Silicon. Note that they don't support their high-level virtualization framework APIs on anything but Apple Silicon Macs, for example.