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It is recommended you do this with a fresh VHDX from Microsoft in case your image was already corrupted.

Run qemu-img convert -p -O qcow2 /path/to/Windows10_InsiderPreview_Client_ARM64_en-us_21286.VHDX /path/to/output/Windows10_InsiderPreview_Client_ARM64_en-us_21286.qcow2 replacing the paths with your own.

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Install Homebrew if you do not have it already.

Currently, UTM does not provide this functionality in the UI so you have to do it directly from QEMU. To work around this issue, it is recommended that you convert the VHDX image to a QCOW2 image. This would result in BSOD or random application crashes/errors. Here’s what the UTM team had to say about the conversion (from ):ĭue to an issue with QEMU handling of VHDX images, sometimes Windows will be corrupted from normal usage. There’s a new critical step - that file must be converted to QCOW2 format. UPDATE: In a previous version of this article, UTM booted from the VHDX file to install Windows.

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SPICE Guest Tools are a collection of utilities and drivers to aid running Windows on Apple Silicon. The Windows link downloads a VHDX (Hyper-V Virtual Hard Disk) with the installer. Download each file to your Mac prior to starting the installation. Links to the software components appear in the Gallery. Those consist of an Apple Silicon Mac, UTM for Mac, Windows for ARM, and SPICE Guest Tools. Click Windows 10 in the Gallery to display a web page showing requirements. Windows 10 (requires free membership in the Windows Insider Program)Ĭreating a Windows 10 Virtual Machine with UTMĪs an example, I’ll be creating a Windows 10 virtual machine.Debian 10.4 (Custom i3, LDXE, Minimal or Xfce).At this time, ARM native VMs are available for: Click this to display a web page with links to download pages for a number of virtual machines (screenshot above). Probably the most useful button for new UTM users is Browse UTM Gallery. The UTM Gallery, showing virtual machines for several operating systems That was easy, wasn’t it? Now launch UTM, and a screen similar to this appears: Press the Command Key, then drag the UTM application icon from the disk image to the Applications folder. If you download the app directly, a disk image file named UTM.dmg appears in your download folder. If you purchased UTM from the Mac App Store, installation is done for you.

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I would suggest downloading and using UTM for Mac for free if you end up using it regularly for work or pleasure, purchase it. Your purchase also funds the future development of UTM. Why would you want to pay $9.99 when the app is free? Because you’ll get automatic updates just like any other Mac app downloaded from the Mac App Store. To download the app you go directly to the app download page and either click the Download button or click the  Mac App Store button to pay $9.99 for the app. It’s quite simple to download UTM for Mac. Let’s see an example of how UTM works on M1 Macs. However, your devices must be running iOS 11 – 13 iOS 14 requires a jailbreak. If you’ve ever had a burning desire to run Windows on an iPhone or iPad, UTM does the job.

UTM also works on “the other Apple Silicon”, with versions of both iOS and iPadOS. It’s free to download or $9.99 on the Mac App Store.

That’s why I was happy to see that there is a VM environment that works on M1 Macs – UTM. VMWare has pledged an Apple Silicon version of Fusion, but it won’t support Windows virtual machines! There’s still no word on whether the free VirtualBox VM environment will ever be updated to run on Apple Silicon.

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UPDATE (July 9, 2021): Parallels Desktop now runs on Apple Silicon, a solution that was not available in March of 2021 when this article was first published. UTM (which I believe stands for Universal Turing Machine) is an open source virtual machine environment. While you might be spending most of your time in macOS 11 Big Sur, your job might require you to use Windows-only apps, Perhaps you need a Linux VM for development work. Your shiny and speedy new Apple Silicon Mac is missing something – the ability to run virtual machines.