Mongo “illegal hardware instruction mongo” on Linux

While trying to install and run mongo on Kali Linux, I encountered the following error.

zsh: illegal hardware instruction mongo

Using a Bash shell it returns the following instead.

Illegal instruction

It appears that the issue is from running mongo in a virtual machine.

https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/mongodb-community-5-0-12-illegal-instruction-core-dumped-ubuntu-20-04-5-lts/204332

https://askubuntu.com/questions/699077/how-to-enable-avx2-extensions-on-a-ubuntu-guest-in-virtualbox-5

Resolution? Run on bare metal or find a way to enable avx2 in the virtual machine.

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