Import Oracle Linux 8.8 ARM from VMWare Fusion on M1 Mac: "Incompatible with this Mac"

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StefanE8

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Hi all,
I have a Fusion VM with Oracle Linux 8.8, imported to Parallels 19 (trial). The import seemed to work fine, but Parallels Control Center says: "Incompatible with this Mac". That's not quite correct, because the original VM is running right now on the very same machine. ;-)
Any ideas how to fix the VM? I suspect that Parallels wrongly set the VM's configuration to "Intel", but is there a way to fix this, e.g. by editing the config.pvs file?
I also tried mounting the hard disk file in a freshly created Linux VM (RHEL, should be close enough), where it does show a boot screen, but device types / IDs seem to differ too much and Linux won't up because it can't find the boot disk. Fusion used an NVME device, which shows up in the imported VM, but is not offered in the VM I created manually, and that device is probably hardcoded in some config file... LVM etc. are really outside of my comfort zone, so I have no idea how to fix this from inside the VM.
Is there anything I can do to fix the VM, or any trick I can use while re-importing it?
Regards,
Stefan
 
Partial answer to my own question: prlctl set "myvm" --cpu-type arm
This turn the "play" button on, so we're not "incompatible" anymore. Next error message:
To start "myvm", you need the latest version of Parallels Desktop.
"myvm" was created in a newer version of Parallels Desktop and uses the features that are not supported in this one.
I liked the first error message more. o_O Any ideas? And, no, I have not switched versions, it's all on 19.0.0-54570.
 
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