I can't say enough nice things about UTM. Especially if you've ever tried using QEMU manually, you'll appreciate how much heavy lifting UTM is doing for you. (I

I can't say enough nice things about UTM. Especially if you've ever tried using QEMU manually, you'll appreciate how much heavy lifting UTM is doing for you. (It's basically impossible to run QEMU "correctly" on macOS. It randomly crashes, issues non-existent instructions, or freezes in IO for seconds at a time, all of which are problems UTM doesn't have.) Yes, I imagine there are fancier commercial VMs out there, but UTM is free and open source, and it works great. (I'm not a light user, either, I use it for Linux kernel work, and never had any cause to complain.)