Nested virtualization with VMware Fusion in Sequoia?

[Carlos Perez]

Hi,

I have just updated a Mac Book Pro M3 to Sequoia and checked that VMware Fusion 13.6.0 is the most recent VMware Fusion version available. I have looked for the equivalent of "expose hardware assisted virtualization to the guest OS" or "Virtualize Intel VT-x/EPT" for the M3 chip to no luck. Does anybody know if VMware Fusion supports nested virtualization on Apple with M3 chips yet?

Best regards,
Carlos

[Technogeezer]

VMware has made no statement that nested virtualization is supported with Fusion 

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. 

[Andriy Savin]

Actually, at the low-level macOS hypervisor api level nested virtualisation is exposed as well, and should be supported starting with M3. I guess it's up to virtualization software providers to update their products to support nested virtualisation. Parallels doesn't have nested virtualization yet as well.

[Technogeezer]

@Andriy Savin that is encouraging news. I did find in the Apple developer documentation where nested virtualization related APIs are now available for the Hypervisor Framework that Fusion uses starting with macOS 15. I would hope that VMware will update Fusion sooner rather than later to support this functionality. 

[SvenGus]

Nested virtualization also for the Hypervisor framework:

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/updates/hypervisor

[SvenGus]

Nested virtualization in the latest UTM 4.6.0 beta for Linux guests:

https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/releases/tag/v4.6.0

(macOS 15) Nested virtualization for Linux Linux VMs using Apple Virtualization backend on macOS 15 and M3 or newer will now have nested virtualization enabled by default

[Technogeezer]

VMware has some work to do. Not only do they need to get nested virtualization into the product, but they've got some glaring bugs with Windows 11 24H2 which broke the product for new Windows users.