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For a Linux server without a graphical desktop (e.g. Fedora Workstation), specify 4096 MB to give your VM 4GB of memory.

On the Hardware page, specify the amount of memory you’d like to give your VM and click Next.

Click Browse, select the DVD ISO image you downloaded and click Next.

On the Linux page, deselect Use Apple Virtualization (this ensures you are also using Qemu - not just the native hypervisor framework in macOS).

Open UTM and click + to create a new VM and click Virtualize, and Linux.

Download the free version of UTM from and copy it to your Applications folder.

Next, you can perform the following steps to create a Linux server VM using UTM: You can visit to download the DVD ISO image for the latest Fedora Workstation (aarch64) or to download the DVD ISO image for the latest Ubuntu Server (ARM). If you just want to host a server (no graphical desktop), I recommend Ubuntu Server as it will likely be the same one hosting your services and Web apps in the cloud. If you need a graphical desktop, I recommend the latest version of Fedora Workstation (shown below in UTM). To get started, you should first download an ARM-based Linux distribution.

In short, UTM allows you to run ARM-based Linux VMs very very fast on the M1 platform for free. Better yet, the VirtIO storage bus used by Qemu and the Linux kernel can access the underlying storage in the Mac at near native speed. However, if you run an ARM version of Linux in UTM, Qemu will run it directly on the M1 at near native speed. If you run an Intel version of Linux in UTM, Qemu will translate the Intel instructions to run on the M1 and there will be a noticable performance cost. UTM leverages the native hypervisor framework in macOS alongside the open source Qemu framework that is used for virtualizing operating systems on Linux. Instead of buying an expensive Parallels or VMWare Fusion license to run a VM of Linux (slowly) on the M1, you can use the free UTM app. Luckily, the most common VM that an IT systems administrator or developer will install is Linux, and ARM versions of Linux have been mainstream for well over a decade now. And while it’s possible to run virtual machines of both Windows and Linux operating systems made for the Intel platform on the M1, the performance cost of translating Intel instructions to ARM is high (even with the optimizations Apple has within their M1 CPU). One of the biggest worries that IT users have regarding Apple’s new ARM-based M1 platform is the ability to run virtual machines (VMs) of other operating systems using hypervisor software.