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. Try out the new experimental 3D driver for DirectX® graphics support allowing you to run Windows® games on your Mac!

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+Vulkan on Linux VMs and DirectX® on Windows® VMs
• Bridged and shared networking support
• Run and store VMs from external drives
* Snapshot management for saved states
• 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
• Experimental GPU acceleration is still under active development and there may be compatibility issues with many games

(*) Linux with Rosetta is only supported on Apple Silicon Macs running macOS 13 and up.