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UTM appears to be based on qemu, and it has full emulation capabilities.

edit: in addition to native virtualization, as noted below

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Under "Additional macOS features":

- Hardware accelerated virtualization using Hypervisor.framework and QEMU

- Boot macOS guests with Virtualization.framework on macOS 12+

So, it does use Virtualization.framework for macOS guests.

Indeed. Note that qemu has support various native virtualization platforms including kvm, macOS' hypervisor framework, and Windows hypervisor. I'm not sure whether qemu supports M1 macOS out of the box (though it does seem to support ARM Linux and Windows) though, so perhaps that's an added feature from UTM.

Support for using Hypervisor.framework on M1 Macs was added in 6.2:

https://wiki.qemu.org/ChangeLog/6.2#Arm

>On macOS hosts with Apple Silicon CPUs we now support the 'hvf' accelerator for running AArch64 guests

nice

Qemu doesn’t support vmnet (so you cannot have host-only and bridge network modes using Mac hosts)

https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/releases/tag/v2.2.4

(macOS 11.3+ Only) Bridged networking and shared networking support.

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