I can’t use vmware on mac m1

[Silas Sarpong]

I downloaded vmware from the website on my mac m1 and it opened correctly but I can’t seem to install any virtual machine in there. It gives back the error “failed to power on ‘/users/silassarpong/downloads/hack/kali 2021 x64 customized by zsecurity v1.0.4.vmwarevm/kali 2021 x64 customized by zsecurity v1.0.4 2.vmx'”.

[Diego Pérez]

Hi!

Unfortunately there’s no way to use VMware or Virtualbox with the M1 chip. The only solution is to use Parallels and the official kali release, check this video:

Hope it helps!
Diego

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