| ▲ | jjtheblunt 5 hours 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. |
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| ▲ | hmokiguess 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'm aware of it, though I would like to have a native solution with GPU acceleration and all the hardware benefits. |
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| ▲ | Scarbutt 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Do you use x64 emulation with UTM? If so, how's the performance? |
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| ▲ | jjtheblunt 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | No. 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 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | This is what I thought, but idk why the literature about this is never clear that it's ARM Linux only. | | |
| ▲ | jjtheblunt 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | which literature? (that question posed, i had to sleuth around to disambiguate oft repeated misinformation before figuring this all out) | | |
| ▲ | traderj0e 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | I 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? |
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