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Installed openSUSE tumbleweed in M1 MBP in UTM. Surprisingly did not face any issue. (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (2 children)

UTM is basically QEMU under the hood, which is well supported by Linux, so it's no surprise that it worked without any issues.

What would be interesting to know however, is what's the performance is like. You should run something like Geekbench on macOS and on UTM and compare the result, to see what the overhead is like.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I am here to serve.

M1 Max Macbook Pro 16 Geekbench 6

Native MacOS: 2437 single core, 12803 multicore

UTM Fedora 38 using QEMU: 2324 single core, 11829 multicore

Parallels Fedora 38: 2333 single core, 12020 multicore

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Damn, that's actually pretty impressive. Assuming you ran the x86-64 version of Fedora in UTM, and the ARM version in Parallels?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I bet he used the arm version, I tried windows x86-64 and couldn't run one month ago, while windows arm worked for a friend.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yes, I have used the arm version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I used to have issues when I tried to run fedora and ubuntu, hence the title.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

I guess shit just work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

UTM?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

It is like Virtualbox only, but exclusively for apple silicon https://mac.getutm.app/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It supports intel Mac’s too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's QEMU, it'd probably support any urach.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It can run any arch under the hosts it supports, but the apple hypervisor for both is different and would need explicit support,

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There’s also a version for iOS/iPadOS getutm.app

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

WiFi works fine?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago

OP used a virtual machine. No wifi involved with the guest

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Ya perfectly, without any issues. Because the distro uses directly MBP's wifi ethernet style.