UTM Virtual Machines

UTM lets you run 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.