I have an M3 MacBook Air that I someday hope will be supported by Asahi Linux. In the meantime, is it possible to install Asahi Linux on my MacBook as a VM with UTM or perhaps Qemu? I’d like to get familiar with it until my MacBook is supported.
Thanks.
I am using UTM on both Intel and Apple silicon Macs. The VMs are, however, regular Fedora releases. It is not needed (I guess not even possible) to install Asahi in a VM.
Regarding UTM, I had better experience and am using it with Apple Virtualization (even though advertised as experimental) instead of QEMU backend. Native resolutions are much better handled. One issue is that it can’t handle suspending the VMs with Apple Virtualization.
You’ll have to use the aarch64 images. For F41, currently there are no ISOs, but only raw images. These can be used by extracting the raw.xz images and selecting them as disk images when configuring the VM.
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Another option for arm64/aarch64 is to use the Everything or Server ISO and then install the necessary desktop environments: Fedora Alternate Architectures
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It’s just Fedora and Lima is better than UTM
Pertaining to the Apple Virtualization of Fedora VMs, I wasn’t able to achieve 3D Acceleration. I was, however, able to do so with QEMU virtualization as one would expect. Supposedly, Apple Virtualization would be the best regarding performance, but without 3D Acceleration, this difference would be invalidated. Were you able to achieve it in your setup? If so, how?
3D acceleration wasn’t a target for my VMs, as my usecase is different. High DPI and good enough 2D performance is what I needed.
Okay, fair enough. I will strongly suggest trying out QEMU virtualization if you ever do want to try or need 3-D acceleration though; I just installed UTM Beta 4.7.0 with QEMU engine 10.0 yesterday and things are super performance, perhaps the most performant out of any virtual machine I’ve ever tested!
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