(It’s a real pity that the Metal driver is not available in Catalina and Mojave: that would have been really great, indeed…)
BTW, in Parallels Desktop I could install Monterey directly from an USB flash drive, which made it a little easier: and, as often happens, it is faster than Fusion, with the Metal graphics driver. Interop matrix of VMware Tools 11.2.5 is applicable to 11.2.6 as well.
iso image manually (the built-in Fusion script didn’t work and neither did the linked script from GitHub), with hdiutil and createinstallmedia and so on (see also the posts above)… It certainly works faster with the experimental graphics driver, but one must say that it is quite unstable, indeed: sometimes booting the VM requires several attempts, with kernel panics in the VM (and sometimes there are kernel panics in the Monterey VM also with the traditional, non-Metal graphics driver): but all in all it works surprisingly well, for a new OS! Test machine: Intel MacBook Pro 15”, late 2013 model (wow: Monterey on an unsupported Mac, and in a VM!). VMware Tools 11.2.6 is an Express Patch and does not have a separate interop matrix entry. VMWare Tool is a tool that allows you to manipulate between 2 Windows that you are running and Mac OS that you are running on VMWare, such as copy & paste the files. Installed macOS 12 Monterey in a new “macOS 11.0” (BTW, with the new version naming, you should probably change the name to “macOS 11”…) VM, after creating the boot.
(I'm not sure if I'm allowed to share screenshots until the beta is made public, so I'm refraining for now until I read the license more thoroughly ( MY FAVORITE PASTIME!)) going to the account page in system prefs did it once, The Guest crashed (kernel panic) a few times doing random things. It hangs a tad coming up (normal with the Apple GPU), but it gets to the desktop and things work as we'd expect (tho I haven't done a ton of digging) Enabled Auto-Login for my user (who is not signed into an iCloud account).Installed the OS, did not reboot afterwards.Means changing `ethernet0.virtualDev = "e1000e"` to: `ethernet0.virtualDev = "vmxnet3"` (minus the `).Before booting, I changed the network adapter type to vmxnet3.New custom VM using macOS 11 GOS type, side-channel mitigations disabled.I was able to get it up on my iMac Pro with 11.4 on the host.