UTM Virtual Machines 4+
Run other operating systems
Turing Software, LLC
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- $9.99
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Description
UTM lets you run Windows® 10, Windows® 11, Ubuntu®, or macOS(*) fully virtualized with maximum performance. Run Windows® 7, Windows® XP, and other older operating system emulated with decent performance.
UTM uses the popular QEMU system emulator securely in a sandboxed environment to protect your data from viruses and malware in the emulated operating system.
Designed for macOS using the latest and greatest Apple technologies, UTM is built from the ground up with the Mac in mind.
Features:
• Run ARM64 operating systems such as Windows® for ARM and Ubuntu® ARM on your Apple Silicon Mac fully virtualized at near native speeds
• Run Intel/AMD operating system such as Windows® 7, Windows® XP, Ubuntu® Linux, and more (emulated with limited performance on Apple Silicon Macs, fully virtualized on Intel Macs)
• Run macOS 12 or higher in a virtualized environment(*)
• Run Intel applications on Linux with Rosetta(**)
• Over 30 processors can be emulated by the QEMU backend including i386, x64, ARM32, ARM64, MIPS, PPC, and RISC-V for developers and enthusiasts
• Supports macOS Sandbox to protect your data from any viruses or malware infecting the emulated operating system (such as Windows®)
• GUI display mode, terminal console mode, and headless mode (with support for multiple displays)
• Attach USB devices to your virtual machine
• Experimental: GPU accelerated OpenGL on Linux VMs
• Bridged and shared networking support
• Run and store VMs from external drives
• Don't know how to use QEMU? Confused at all the options QEMU provides? UTM provides an easy to understand UI for creating and configuring VMs that does not require knowledge of QEMU command line arguments
Current Limitations:
We are working hard to provide new features. Below are some things currently missing from UTM. We hope to support at least some of these features in the future.
• No direct mounting of external disks and drives, only mounting disk images is supported
• No drag & drop of files and data, only copy paste of text and sharing of a single directory is supported with tools installed
• No GPU acceleration for Windows® and only experimental OpenGL acceleration for Linux (most Windows® games will NOT run)
• macOS virtualization only runs on Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 12 and up. macOS 12 does not support USB sharing, copy/paste, or dynamic resolution.
(*) macOS virtualization is only supported on Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 12 and up.
(**) Linux with Rosetta is only supported on Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 13 and up.
What’s New
Version 4.6.4
* Fixed an issue with virtio-ramfb device where Windows may sometimes try to render to an inactive display target causing black screen, "Guest has not initialized the display (yet)", or broken cursor. This sometimes happens right after installing the viogpudo drivers for the first time and more recently while upgrading to Windows 11 24H2. (#6332, #6883)
* Fixed a crash that might occur when a serial port is used and a large amount of data arrives at startup
* Fixed a crash that might occur on a VM with a serial port if data arrives as the guest is shutting down
* Fixed a crash launching any ARM64 virtualized QEMU VMs on macOS Monterey or older (#6881)
* Fixed a deadlock (freeze) which can be observed if a Linux VM with GL acceleration enabled is left running for a long time (#5205)
* Fixed auto-resolution restore not working properly after a macOS guest is paused or suspended (#6874)
* Fixed an issue causing the mouse cursor to disappear when a macOS guest is paused (#6875)
Ratings and Reviews
Apple DNS Jail
If this can run an entire operating system, why can't I download Firefox from the Apple Store? I paid for this, so in theory, it should provide more capabilities, but I feel like it might be the opposite.
VMware and Parallels Better but…
UTM is quirky, whereas parallels and VMware are polished products. Getting an installation for linux or windows install on my Mac was painstaking because they left out little things. I personally haven’t installed a Windows bistro in years. I kept on crashing the install process for the simply reason of to hit enter as soon as I saw the prompt for example. Parallels now charges a monthly subscription fee, whereas VMware you have to get a Broadcom account the get the free sw, however their is no option for registering as a new user. So there out for now. UTM USB is inconsistent. CD rom images that are not need are still there in the sim, haven’t figure out how the detach them. Sharing folder only can copy non-executable file as opposed to using to move over old already downloaded install programs have around, which got me Tinto how inconsistent the usb device behavior is.
Great open source option for ARM virtualization
Works great for ARM versions of Windows 11 and Linux, as well as emulated Windows XP and Mac OS 9.
Does not seem to work for x86 Windows 10 or Linux (unusably slow). If you absolutely need to use x86 software, you should probably stick with x86 hardware.
Other feedback: there are some settings that seem like they should be enabled by default but aren’t, like Retina mode and some graphics settings for Linux.
The gallery of pre-built images is extremely outdated and the ones I’ve tried have been buggy. You’re much better off doing a fresh install from an iso directly from the distributor.
App Privacy
The developer, Turing Software, LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
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Information
- Seller
- Turing Software, LLC
- Size
- 243.8 MB
- Category
- Business
- Compatibility
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- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.3 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2024 Turing Software, LLC
- Price
- $9.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Up to six family members can use this app with Family Sharing enabled.