[jjtheblunt]

No. It's all native Arm. In the UTM app, when creating a new VM, there's an option to say it's going to be "Linux" (generically at that point), which exposes a checkbox which allows you to specify use of Apple Silicon hypervisor.framework, and specifically _not_ x86 emulation.

I use hypervisor.framework, never use x86 emulation, and the result is great. Tested with both Fedora for ARM and Arch for ARM (perhaps CachyOS's bundling of Arch works there, but i did it lower level because i'm an old nerd).

[traderj0e]

This is what I thought, but idk why the literature about this is never clear that it's ARM Linux only.

[jjtheblunt]

which literature? (that question posed, i had to sleuth around to disambiguate oft repeated misinformation before figuring this all out)

[traderj0e]

I don't have it in front of me, have just seen conflicting info on a lot on articles about virtualization on Mac.

Well wait, UTM's official website clearly says it does support x86 if you're ok with the emu performance hit. Is that wrong?

[jjtheblunt]

that checkbox i mentioned above lets you choose to use native Apple ARM via the hypervisor.framework, or use Qemu which lets you do the x86 emulation?

[intelkishan]

It does support x86 at higher performance costs.