VMWare has pledged an Apple Silicon version of Fusion, but it won’t support Windows virtual machines! There’s still no word on whether the free VirtualBox VM environment will ever be updated to run on Apple Silicon. UPDATE (July 9, 2021): Parallels Desktop now runs on Apple Silicon, a solution that was not available in March of 2021 when this article was first published. UTM (which I believe stands for Universal Turing Machine) is an open source virtual machine environment.

While you might be spending most of your time in macOS 11 Big Sur, your job might require you to use Windows-only apps, Perhaps you need a Linux VM for development work. Next, for installing a desktop environment (because the images used by Multipass don’t have a pre-installed graphical desktop), we connect into VM by running multipass shell VMname and start desktop installation: ❯ multipass shell Welcome to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (GNU/Linux 5.15.Your shiny and speedy new Apple Silicon Mac is missing something – the ability to run virtual machines. ❯ multipass launch 22.04 -n primary -c 2 -m 4G -d 50G Below example will launch a 22.04 Ubuntu VM named primary with 2 CPUs, 4 GB of RAM and 50 GB of disk space. But if you plan to use the guest OS in graphical mode, better to increase the amount of available resources.

This will deploy an Ubuntu image with the default resource configurations (do multipass launch - help for details). To install it, simply run launch command and give the image name as parameter: ❯ multipass launch 22.04 Starting with version 1.9.0+mac, Multipass includes an image for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Jammy Jellyfish: ❯ multipass version multipass 1.9.0+mac multipassd 1.9.0+mac ❯ multipass find Image Aliases Version Description 18.04 bionic 20220505 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 20.04 focal,lts 20220419 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 21.10 impish 20220309 Ubuntu 21.10 22.04 jammy 20220420 Ubuntu 22.04 LTS anbox-cloud-appliance latest Anbox Cloud Appliance charm-dev latest A development and testing environment for charmers docker latest A Docker environment with Portainer and related tools minikube latest minikube is local Kubernetes

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