[larusso]

Guess you misunderstood me. I know that UTM is built on top of qemu. I use it as well. I mean when already using this init image tooling etc why clicking through the UI to setup a VM. One would think to offload this also to a script. Because in the posts steps UTM is just a means to start the resulting image.

[ikatson]

Maybe I did misunderstand, I agree the post makes it overly complicated! You definitely don't need cloud-init just to run Linux on Mac OS