UTM
Dev tools
virtual machine manager
SHOW HN2021
418points
122comments
#64of 2,533 in 2021
Top 3%of 2021 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
18 positive, 31 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 4 critical, out of 53 comments about the project. Thread score +0.26.
Design: 5 for, 1 againstExecution: 2 for, 2 againstPricing: 3 for, 0 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstDocs: 2 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, beautiful UI
From 3 comments
> UTM was created for macOS and only for Apple platforms And it shows, the UI is beautiful. Will try this out.
Toutouxc on HNNice page, very clean and straightforward, yet not too dull. Cool project!
Tepix on HNLooks like it's built with SwiftUI too, nice!
lukeh on HN
Good free and open-source alternative to paid VM tools
From 2 comments
This is insane. Best software find in a long time. An open-source alternative to Fusion is very welcome for me. And, lovely work on the UI!
unicornporn on HNWhere have you been OP? I've been waiting for years. I will totally pay for this. Tired of paying yearly subscriptions to Parallels Desktop Lite which is another frontend to the…
ulzeraj on HN
Runs flawlessly for some users on M1
From 1 comment
Hey, I need to thank you for this! This is what I use to run QEMU on my M1 Air. I had a few bumps setting it up but now it runs flawlessly. I SSH to it via VS Code and basically…
kristiandupont on HN
Objections
Hard to use compared with raw QEMU CLI or VMware Fusion
From 1 comment
Well it is great in many ways, but today I downloaded it and played a bit and found it hard to use compared with “directly using qemu cli” or vmware fusion for Mac free edition,…
kljsandjb on HN
Debian and Ubuntu ARM installs fail with CD or UEFI errors
From 2 comments
Random question but when I tried to install Debian on this I got an error that no cdrom drive was detected. Is there a workaround?
eliaskg on HNRunning UTM with Ubuntu Server 20.04 ARM64 ISO image, it prompt UEFI and I couldn't install like it did work a few month ago.
proyb on HN
No GPU acceleration yet
From 1 comment
GPU support will probably come from implementing virgil3d in Metal.
osy on HN
Requests
More modern x86 VM gallery images
From 1 comment
Thanks for creating this, it looks fantastic, I just bought it! I love that it's a nice layer over QEMU / Apple's Hypervisor, so i know the performance will be reasonable. One…
chubs on HN
Snapshots support
From 1 comment
This is great, thank you. Is it currently possible to have snapshots, like in VirtualBox, for instance?
tambourine_man on HN
Vagrant support
From 1 comment
Oh very interesting. I only need Vagrant support and then I can fully switch to M1 in the future. Looks like this could be the successor for Virtualbox on Mac M1. Wonder if this…
therealmarv on HN
Linux or iOS port
From 2 comments
This is a very nice frontend. Someone should definitely port it or rewrite it for Linux. All the existing UIs are either ugly or use libvirt, which is a nasty pile of hacks that…
qalmakka on HNSaw UTM for iOS, got excited, only to find out it's not available in the App Store, and I have no Mac to build it with. Oh well.
josteink on HN
Questions
What does UTM stand for
From 2 comments
Just a silly question here but what's the UTM acronym meaning? I have been a QEMU user for over a decade now. Virtualization was fun back then, but so slow forcing me to…
jzer0cool on HNWhat does UTM stand for? Couldn't find it on google or in the FAQ...
wolfium3 on HN
Performance compared to VMware and Parallels
From 2 comments
Looks good. How is the speed compared to vmware?
m3nu on HNI use Parallels. What is the benefit of QEMU compared to Parallels?
AshleighBasil on HN
Which parts are hardware accelerated
From 1 comment
Which parts of QEMU on M1 are hardware accelerated?
wolfhumble on HN
Alternatives named
Parallels Desktop
From 2 comments
Where have you been OP? I've been waiting for years. I will totally pay for this. Tired of paying yearly subscriptions to Parallels Desktop Lite which is another frontend to the…
ulzeraj on HNI use Parallels. What is the benefit of QEMU compared to Parallels?
AshleighBasil on HN
VMware Fusion
From 2 comments
Looks good. How is the speed compared to vmware?
m3nu on HNWell it is great in many ways, but today I downloaded it and played a bit and found it hard to use compared with “directly using qemu cli” or vmware fusion for Mac free edition,…
kljsandjb on HN
VirtualBox
From 1 comment
Oh very interesting. I only need Vagrant support and then I can fully switch to M1 in the future. Looks like this could be the successor for Virtualbox on Mac M1. Wonder if this…
therealmarv on HN
libvirt / GNOME Boxes
From 2 comments
Not sure what GNOME Boxes uses, but it looks good: https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Boxes
captn3m0 on HNThis is a very nice frontend. Someone should definitely port it or rewrite it for Linux. All the existing UIs are either ugly or use libvirt, which is a nasty pile of hacks that…
qalmakka on HN