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Things have improved a lot since this article was written. Running Linux VMs on an M1 Mac is easier than ever. Homebrew Qemu and UTM work out of the box. UTM also supports bridged networking. I haven’t had a chance to try it myself, but I believe libvirt also works now without doing anything special.

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I have installed Ubuntu Server 20.04 on a M1 Max on UTM and it was the fastest linux installation ever by an order of magnitude! I tried the x86 version with UTM but got a crash. Highly recommended!!

I should have been clear in my original comment that I was referring to virtualization, i.e. ARM Linux guests.

I was using UTM yesterday and it works great vor ARM vm's. x86 is to slow to use. Like, opening firefox takes 10 minutes.

Not sure where that goes wrong yet. Or if qemu emulation is just that slow. This article suggests it could be better

EDIT: nevermind, misread/understood the post. x86 code is fast, x86 emulation is not. It works, but is hardly usable.

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