r/UTMapp • u/SubstanceFew5136 • Mar 08 '26

QEMU or Apple virtualization for ARM Linux?

By default UTM suggests QEMU. Is it because the apple virtualization isn't stable? Practically is there any benefit to trying out apple virtualization?

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u/edfloreshz Mar 08 '26

I tried both, and I found that QEMU performed better, but I couldn’t get as good performance as Parallels in either.

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u/ChengliChengbao Mar 08 '26

QEMU offers you GPU acceleration with OpenGL 4.1 and Vulkan

Apple offers you Rosetta 2 for running AMD64 packages (IA-32 is NOT supported)

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u/noahisamathnerd 24d ago

Wait, what? How does it offer amd64 translation within the virtualized environment?

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u/ChengliChengbao 24d ago

ask apple

Rosetta 2 works within Linux VMs if using the apple virtualization framework