No one is more disappointed about this than I am. We're thinking about what makes sense there, but we also want to keep features that are uniquely ours like Snapshots, Clones, 3D hardware accelerated graphics, the network editor, and connecting to + compatibility with vSphere. Virt framework is a super-high-level API that basically says 'give me VM, here is my ISO' and it does that. So, off the bat we can't use this really intersting sounding Rosetta feature because it's limited to amework, whereas we use amework becuase we already wrote the code to do 'all the things a VM does'. Unfortunately if you still need to run Intel operating systems on todays Macs, Apple is the one that sunk that boat. Use an Intel system if you need to run X86_64 architecture operating systems. CPU chipset emulation is too slow to be useful. Emulation is not a core competency of either. I would not hold my breath for VMware to include Intel chip emulation in their hypervisors. They’re almost encouraging their Mac customers to move to Parallels. VMware owes their Mac customers a lot more than what they’ve done to date. It is desperately needed as the current Tech Preview has not been able to run ARM Linux kernels since March (3 months ago). Not a peep about a Tech Preview update like they hinted here.

It is also now mid-June and WWDC has come and gone. They still have no viable product on any Mac that Apple announced starting in late 2020. Their legendary silence on upcoming releases is deafening. I too am disappointed in VMware’s inaction. I’ve been willing to give VMware the benefit of the doubt here but not much longer.

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