[timsally]

We'll have to see. As another person already pointed out, VMWare has experimented with ESXi on ARM and they claim their customers could realize significant cost savings by migrating to ARM [1]. So if they've already done a good amount of engineering work on it, we may well see VMWare Fusion on ARM that can efficiently run ARM guests. They plan on releasing a tech preview in July [2].

Whether you can stick an emulated x86-64 CPU in there is another matter. It's a much bigger engineering lift and unless Apple puts some resources into it it's not clear to me a virtualization company by themselves would want to incur the cost. I hope there is enough demand for it and that someone will provide it. For me personally the only reason I run VMWare Fusion is to access x86-only Windows applications for which there is no replacement.

[1] https://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/2019/10/esxi-on-arm-at-the-....

[2] https://twitter.com/VMwareFusion/status/1275466832002945024