Downloaded .iso not working for VMWare Fusion

[mgerasolo]

Has anyone else been having issues with the downloaded .iso not being bootable? Is there something special I would have to do to run it as a VM in VMWare Fusion on a Mac? I picked Ubuntu 64-bit as the type of OS but not recognized as bootable.

I wanted to try Elementary OS about a month ago. I was going to run it as a VM in VMWare Fusion on a Mac Studio Ultra M1. But the ISO (elementaryos-8.0-stable.20241122rc.iso) was not recognized as bootable. I went today and redownloaded figured maybe by now new version or different file, but it is the same and even a fresh download VM Ware wont recognize as Bootable.

[ryonakano]

I guess VMWare Fusion on Apple Silicon (arm64) may not support running amd64 guests maybe? elementary OS is only built for amd64, Raspberry Pi, and PineBook Pro.

[felixding]

Same.

Searching “elementary OS arm64” yields no valid results either. I guess the only option is to build from source?