Since flutter 3.29, impeller is mandatory on ios, as it is mentionned here :

https://docs.flutter.dev/perf/impeller

If you are on a MAC OS VM on VMWARE workstation (pro or not) you CANNOT enable GPU passtrough.
So you cannot use ios SIMULATOR on that VM MAC OS.

In conclusion, since flutter 3.29, you MUST use a physical MAC OS computer to BUILD and test and RELEASE a flutter ios application.

Maybe there is a way to do it with QEMU on a Ubuntu computer that host a MAC OS VM, but I haven't tried yet.