Running as a native OS on RaspPi4 under ESXI-ARM

Installation Home Assistant OS
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I’ve recently bought a Raspberry Pi 4 and installed ESXI-ARM on it.
I’d like to install the native Home Assistant OS as a virtual machine on it.
Attempts to install it as a “native” have failed.
Am i resigned to running it as a docker instance?
Some of the things i tried reside here: https://www.reddit.com/r/homeassistant/comments/mu95lc/raspberry_pi_with_esxi_running_hassio/

I’m wondering if i have to create a virtual disk, mount that disk in a linux environment and dd the image to that disk. then mount that as the only disk on the HA virtual machine.
Is that likely to work?
Once that is running, will I be able to run the mqtt broker on the same virtual machine, or will i require a second machine? If not, i think running them all in one VM using docker might be more manageable…

Thoughts?

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It seems what is required is to have a UEFI firmware for the boot. Is this in the works or even possible?
Are there plans to make a ESXI-ARM vmdk or ova distribution?

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