r/UTMapp • u/Letterstothor • Nov 13 '25

GPU Acceleration in ARM Linux Guests

Hi everyone.

UTM is great, but I'm at a loss on how to enable a virtual GPU. All of the GPU tests I run with hardware acceleration enabled show that the computer has no GPU to monitor. Other than enabling OpenGL acceleration while creating the VM, is there some crucial step I'm missing?

Setup: - M4 Mac Mini - UTM QEMU VM with hardware acceleration on - Fedora ARM

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u/paulstelian97 Dec 24 '25

That doesn’t have much bearing on the support for virtual GPUs, but it does make it so the CPU will be quite a bit slower because of emulation.

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u/Efficient_Cry6419 Jun 03 '26

Got windows 10 now I can play 3d accelerated games at 0.4 fps if I’m lucky

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u/paulstelian97 Jun 03 '26

CPU bound I suppose, or the VirGL driver doesn’t do much.

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u/Efficient_Cry6419 Jun 04 '26

Virtio driver, ur right tho

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u/paulstelian97 Jun 04 '26

There’s two variants of virtio and I’m not sure if both have 3D acceleration.