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Also worth looking at UTM [1] which uses the apple virtualization framework, while also being a simple frontend to QEMU.

[1] https://github.com/utmapp/UTM

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I really like UTM for VM that I just need to shell into. It's not as complete as something like VirtualBox or VMware Fusion, but it does what I need.

The only thing I'd like to have is some sort of background daemon, so my VM don't stop if I accidentally close the UTM window.

Yeah, thats pretty much my usage with UTM as well. I run it in console mode, hide all the windows, and then SSH into my VM.

Can't you run it on scren/tmux?

It shows UI.

I had a pretty bad experience with running a desktop in UTM. The UTM app itself freezes a lot and has to be force quit, and I think there are issues with the GPU acceleration.

Parallels was a night and day difference in both stability and responsiveness of my desktop. And copy/paste Just Worked as well. Definitely worth the $100/year subscription in my opinion.

For anecdote, I didn't have those issues in a UTM VM on multiple Apple Silicon MacBook Airs.

Having said that, yeah, Parallels performance still wins.

This is what I've been using. Very nice app.

Is there a way to persist volumes in UTM? I want a persistent fedora vm but haven't been able to set it up.

Did you run the Fedora installer in the VM, or just boot from live-CD?

Persistence is the default. Maybe you are just using the live environment, instead of actually doing the install?

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