@CameronDiver Thanks for your effort. And sorry for late replay as I was busy working on a workshop.
Here are the steps that I follow :
Step 1: Download latest Intel NUC production image from the BalenaOS website
https://api.balena-cloud.com/download?deviceType=intel-nuc&version=2.50.1+rev1.prod&fileType=.zip
Step 2: Preload load the Containers from a particular release id from an application.
balena preload balena-cloud-intel-nuc-2.50.1+rev1-dev-v11.4.10.img --app TestAPP --commit e1f2592fc6ee949e68756d4f4a48e49bff8d72a0 --splash-image logo.png
Step 3: I use resin-image-flasher-unwrap tool to get the embedded balena image from balena image flasher in the VMDK format so that I can run in the VMware Hypervisor
./docker-run /complete-path/balena-cloud-intel-nuc-2.50.1+rev1-dev-v11.4.10.img --format vmdk
Step 4: Run the VMDK in the vmware hypervisor.
With all the above steps, the preloaded containers in BalenaOS 2.48 version works well. The issue starts from the image 2.50+