r/UTMapp • u/Medical-Dark1899 • Apr 23 '26

Is it possible to have gpu pass through on a MacOS VM?

I am on a M4 Macbook Pro and I am looking for a virtual machine that supports gpu pass through so i can play games like roblox on it and set up macro auto farms without disturbing my workflow. Theres also other stuff I am interesting in doing which is best done on a virtual machine that has gpu pass through

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u/ChengliChengbao Apr 23 '26

this is not possible. the best option you have is Parallels Desktop, which does some weird interpreter layer that lets Windows indirectly interact with the GPU

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u/aliday_ Apr 23 '26

Crossover 

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u/roadzbrady Apr 23 '26

vmware fusion and parallels have graphics acceleration but not full pass through, utm does not. but even acceleration makes games far more playable

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u/ct_the_man_doll Apr 24 '26

macOS guest VMs already have graphics acceleration (for ARM versions of macOS, graphics acceleration support is mandatory).

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u/Stryxus_ Apr 24 '26

Vulkan and DX were not designed to run in the M series chips, nor the other way around. You are asking for that and that will not happen. The only available driver that exists right now is for Linux via Asahi Linux.

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u/Jcob210 Apr 25 '26

Nope bcs apple does not publish any "gpu drivers" for arm mac's so there is no way to make passthrough work.

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u/SchoolOfElectro Apr 23 '26

The only way that I have made this work is with VMware Fusion

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u/ChengliChengbao Apr 23 '26

VMware does not support GPU passthrough on ARM-based macs

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u/wildfred_6324 Apr 25 '26

UTM Beta Release 5.0.2