Supported guest operating systems
Only Windows and Linux. See https://web.archive.org/web/20241130004426/https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=90364.
Nested virtualization
Not supported yet. See https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=90364 and https://community.broadcom.com/vmware-cloud-foundation/question/nested-virtualization-with-vmware-fusion-in-sequoia.
Apple has stated that the feature is available on Sonoma for VMs using the high level Virtualization Framework — the ones that Fusion does NOT use.
x86 and x64 emulation
Windows 11 on Arm supports emulation of both x86 and x64 apps and performance has been enhanced with the new emulator Prism, introduced in Windows 11 24H2.
Accelerated 3D Graphics
- On VMs running Windows 7 or later, Fusion supports DirectX 11 with OpenGL 4.3.
- On VMs running Linux, Fusion supports OpenGL 4.3 for accelerated 3D graphics.
Time synchronization on Linux guests
Enable “Synchronize time” in VM Settings → Advanced and install open-vm-tools in guest VM.
If that didn’t work, a workaround is to allow an NTP daemon to correct time.
For chrony, modify /etc/chrony.conf to let chronyd step the system clock at all times when its offset is larger than 5 seconds.
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