Michael Roy (tweet):
Big Sur brings with it some really big visual changes, but also major changes under the hood. For instance, Apple has been progressively deprecating 3rd party Kernel Extensions or “kexts” which Fusion needs to run VMs and containers. In order to continue to operate in this model, we’ve re-architected our hypervisor stack to leverage Apple’s native hypervisor APIs, allowing us to run VMs without any kernel extensions.
On macOS Catalina systems, Fusion operates as it always has using kernel extensions to provide functionality. However on Big Sur systems, Fusion operates entirely without kexts.
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This Tech Preview supports macOS Big Sur 11.0 Beta 2 for both Host and Guest.
Mojave is explicitly not supported. The next major version of Fusion will deprecate Mojave hosts.
See also:
- How To Install macOS Big Sur Beta on VMware Fusion & Parallels Desktop
- Installing MacOS to VirtualBox
Previously: