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by LeoPanthera 1349 days ago
UTM. It's qemu under the hood and will emulate x86 if you want it to. (Or other architectures, it runs Mac OS 9 under an emulated PowerPC perfectly. Great fun.)

But it's not quick. I would not attempt to run a modern Windows on it, I don't think it would work due to a lack of performance.

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For those not familiar with UTM:

https://mac.getutm.app/

"Securely run operating systems on your Mac"

$10 for a GUI.
Is this comment supposed to indicate that’s expensive? A fast food meal to support the development of an intuitive GUI wrapper around a piece of software I may use for hours on end? There’s also a free download on their website.
What a deal! Id gladly pay for a nice GUI that manages things and makes configuration easy. My time is worth way more than $10.

Also, “Purchasing the App Store version directly funds the development of UTM and shows your support.”

> Id gladly pay for a nice GUI that manages things and makes configuration easy.

that GUI which gives you like 10% exposure to all supported qemu and apple virtualization layer features won't make your configuration easy.

> “Purchasing the App Store version directly funds the development of UTM and shows your support.”

I'd prefer to fund to fund projects like qemu itself. Not some feature incomplete GUI sitting on top of qemu.

only if you use Apple's walled garden. did you miss the multiple links to the free download hosted on github?
It's both free and open source (https://github.com/utmapp/UTM). You can pay 10$ to get automatic updates, which IMHO is a very fair price and you are helping support the project.