Possibly not what you are after, but I needed a Windows VM and found it trivial to get one working in UTM. I’d wanted a Fusion VM, but that seemed quite hard (though is reportedly possible).
Cool, I remember a post about someone getting vmware working on M1 , mixed it up with vbox. I don't get the downvotes, not supposed to ask other users' experience? Whatever HN.
So you can finally try out WSL?
I mean, marcan_42 is the creator and he’s on some other threads in this discussion. I’d suggest asking him.
I wanted a user's experience based input before I spend time+money on this because I like the project a lot. Sounds like I should wait a bit longer.
I encourage you to donate to the patreon page
The project might get accelerated with some of your time+money.