> Your answer is mentioning UTM and Parallels, which would mean we're emulating x86 commands, correct? ... if there's an arm build for Ubuntu There is indeed a

> Your answer is mentioning UTM and Parallels, which would mean we're emulating x86 commands, correct? ... if there's an arm build for Ubuntu There is indeed an ARM build for Ubuntu (and has been for over a decade!), and this is what you would most likely want to run in a VM on an Apple Silicon machine. You can also run the x86 version emulated, but this will of course be much slower. As of the latest macOS releases, it's even possible to use Apple's "rosetta" translation software to run translated x86 binaries within an ARM linux VM, and this is likely the best thing to try first if you are using software that doesn't have ARM versions.