Vagrant & VMWare Fusion Communication Failure after Mac Monterey 12.5.1 Update

Question

I use Vagrant to boot, configure and run my development environment (see vagrant file detail below)

I am receiving the following error in vagrant following a Mac OS (Monterey 12.5.1) update overnight:

Vagrant encountered an unexpected communications error with the Vagrant VMware Utility driver. Please try to run the command again. If this error persists, please contact support@hashicorp.com

Does anyone know what could cause this specifically? I believe the Utility is driving the issue but I'm uncertain how to track it down and clearly identify the cause.

I'll try to lay out my setup as simply as possible using a Macbook Pro (M1 Core - Arm64) Running Monterey 12.5.1 and guidance from the following Vagrant and VMWare Tech Preview on Apple M1 Pro

• Install Rosetta via:

  /usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta --agree-to-license

• Vagrant 2.3.0 (also tried 2.2.18)

• VMware Fusion Technology Preview 21H1 (for ARM)

• Simlink Generate via:

  ln -s /Applications/VMWare\ Fusion\ Tech\ Preview.app /Applications/VMWare\ Fusion.app

• Vagrant VMWare Utility (https://releases.hashicorp.com/vagrant-vmware-utility/1.0.21/vagrant-vmware-utility_1.0.21_x86_64.dmg)

• Utility installed with:

  vagrant plugin install vagrant-vmware-desktop

This was all working well prior to the update using the following Vagrant file:

Vagrant.configure(2) do |config|
  config.vbguest.auto_update = false

  config.vbguest.no_remote = true
  config.vm.box = "uwbbi/bionic-arm64"
  config.vm.hostname = "mywebsite"

  config.vm.network "private_network", ip: "192.168.56.7"
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 80, host: 8080
  config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 1080, host: 1080

  config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/var/www/app-cake2", #, :mount_options => ["dmode=777", "fmode=766"]
     id: "mywebsite",
     group:'vagrant',      
     owner:'www-data',
     umask: "755"

  config.vm.provider "vmware_fusion" do |v, override|
     v.memory = 512
  end

I have uninstalled and reinstalled using these instructions (and a few variations) with no success as of the time of this post.

Any suggestions or recommendations are appreciated in advance.

I tried to be as complete as possible but if you see something I've omitted please comment and I'll add.

Thanks!