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