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Installed openSUSE tumbleweed in M1 MBP in UTM. Surprisingly did not face any issue. (sh.itjust.works)

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year 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] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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 1 year 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 1 year 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] 4 points 1 year ago

Yes, I have used the arm version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] 0xeb 6 points 1 year ago

I guess shit just work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

WiFi works fine?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

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

UTM?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Jumper775 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It supports intel Mac’s too.

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

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

[–] Jumper775 2 points 1 year ago

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