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you can run Arch proper in UTM.app on macos...utm is available on the app store or open source, and wraps the apple silicon hypervisor.framework. it works fant
by jjtheblunt 6mo ago
you can run Arch proper in UTM.app on macos...utm is available on the app store or open source, and wraps the apple silicon hypervisor.framework.
it works fantastic magic. i had dual booted Asahi for a year or so, but really for no good reason once i realized UTM existed.
- Scarbutt 6mo agoDo you use x64 emulation with UTM? If so, how's the performance?
- jjtheblunt 6mo agoNo. It's all native Arm. In the UTM app, when creating a new VM, there's an option to say it's going to be "Linux" (generically at that point), which exposes a checkbox which allows you to specify use of Apple Silicon hypervisor.framework, and specifically _not_ x86 emulation. I use hypervisor.framework, never use x86 emulation, and the result is great. Tested with both Fedora for ARM and Arch for ARM (perhaps CachyOS's bundling of Arch works there, but i did it lower level because i'm an old nerd).
- traderj0e 6mo agoThis is what I thought, but idk why the literature about this is never clear that it's ARM Linux only.
- jjtheblunt 6mo agowhich literature? (that question posed, i had to sleuth around to disambiguate oft repeated misinformation before figuring this all out)
- traderj0e 6mo agoI don't have it in front of me, have just seen conflicting info on a lot on articles about virtualization on Mac. Well wait, UTM's official website clearly says it does support x86 if you're ok with the emu performance hit. Is that wrong?
- intelkishan 6mo agoIt does support x86 at higher performance costs.
- jjtheblunt 6mo agothat checkbox i mentioned above lets you choose to use native Apple ARM via the hypervisor.framework, or use Qemu which lets you do the x86 emulation?
- hmokiguess 6mo agoI'm aware of it, though I would like to have a native solution with GPU acceleration and all the hardware benefits.