Do you use x64 emulation with UTM? If so, how's the performance?

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).

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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.

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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?