Installing Gnome desktop on a VMWare Fusion VM with MBP M1

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I first downloaded the VM prebuilt (also tried with the standard ISO file) image here, installed it, all good, up and running, then I executed the following commands to install Gnome desktop:

# pkg update
# pkg install gnome xorg 
# sysrc gnome_enable="YES"
# sysrc gdm_enable="YES"
# sysrc dbus_enable="YES"
# echo "exec gnome-session" > ~/.xinitrc
# reboot

All went fine with the reboot, I got to the login prompt, then when it started executing X11 and Gnome got the following error, any idea how to address this?

 

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I have installed Xfce (to check Xorg functionality) and it starts the graphical environment OK, therefore it seems Xorg is working, but I have no mouse or keyboard, and their receptive packages are installed.