The Hypervisor.Framework was already being used for VMware Fusion 12. It is the main reason behind a lot of the current complaints, like poor performance and ne

The Hypervisor.Framework was already being used for VMware Fusion 12. It is the main reason behind a lot of the current complaints, like poor performance and network connection issues under certain conditions. There's more than one reason for this VMware to take more time. One of them being that VMware Fusion is part of a bigger picture, like that Fusion needs to work with VMware vSphere from day one. FWIW, there's already ESXi on Arm. I don't know how much more work it is to get that to work on Apple Silicon assuming you are talking about "run it on the metal and not as a VM". Pretty sure they will investigate that route to see how much extra work it is.