[burnt-resistor]

VMware Workstation/Fusion team has always been underfunded and understaffed. Every year, they release a reskinned version with a few minor features to justify the cost to buyers. They really don't have the cycles to maintain a competitive product that would include major changes or large feature advancements. (Fusion is basically a dead product because it can't do performant x86_64 emu/v12n on arm Macs. The closest replacement is UTM, based on QEMU, but it's really slow.)

The problem this introduces is it probably won't work with existing customer tooling built for W/F, won't work with open-vm-tools, and will be incompatible with existing VMs. IOW, this will likely have a net negative impact on users.

Sad.

[belthesar]

Ironically, x86 performance of Win applications on UTM is faster when using Windows' ARM to x86 translation rather than using QEMU virtualization, because it can do Rosetta 2 like translation of only the specific application code and not the dependent libraries.

[stuaxo]

Made the mistake of UTM on my dev machine in a job up to about a year ago.

It might be better now, but it wasn't ready at that point, I'll probably check it out again in a few years time.

The speed for Arm Linux on a MacOS host was OK, but the hard locks I was hitting multiple times a day, not so much.