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UTM

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UTM is a full featured system emulator and virtual machine host for iOS and macOS. It is based off of QEMU. In short, it allows you to run Windows, Linux, and more on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

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License model

  • FreeOpen Source

Application type

Country of Origin

  • International

Platforms

  • Mac
  • iPhone
  • iPad
  • visionOS
4.4 / 5 Avg rating (5)
22likes
2comments

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Properties

  1.  Privacy focused
  2.  Lightweight

Features

  1.  Virtualization
  2.  Multi System Emulator
  3.  Emulation
  4.  Ad-free
  5.  Container Virtualization

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  • Pelargonium liked UTM
    12 days ago
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    POX added UTM as alternative to Karton VM
    about 1 month ago
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    POX added UTM as alternative to lume VM
    5 months ago
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    K0RR added UTM as alternative to RVVM
    6 months ago
  • Guest rated UTM  
    7 months ago
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    POX added UTM as alternative to CheerpX
    7 months ago
  • sittletwopalternativeto liked UTM
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UTM information

  • Developed by

    osy86
  • Licensing

    Open Source (Apache-2.0) and Free product.
  • Written in

  • Rating

    Average rating of 4.4
  • Alternatives

    56 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English
    • Finnish
    • French
    • German
    • Italian
    • Japanese
    • Korean
    • Polish
    • Russian
    • Chinese
    • Spanish

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GitHub repository

  •  29,851 Stars
  •  1,469 Forks
  •  942 Open Issues
  •   Updated Apr 8, 2025 
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Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about UTM, and it has gotten 22 likes

UTM was added to AlternativeTo by Paul on Feb 18, 2020 and this page was last updated Jul 15, 2024.

Comments and Reviews

   
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Top Positive Comment
Mr. Anon
Oct 31, 2023
0

Running Fedora and Ubuntu 22.04 smooth as butter on an M1 Macbook, free and open source.

Mined
Feb 19, 2020
1

The Idea of running KVM/QEMU on iOS is beautiful. Dont know the use case for me, but I see someone running a couple of iPad Pros like "blades" in a rack somewhere, haha.

What is UTM?

UTM is a full featured system emulator and virtual machine host for iOS and macOS. It is based off of QEMU. In short, it allows you to run Windows, Linux, and more on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

Features

  • Full system emulation (MMU, devices, etc) using QEMU
  • 30+ processors supported including x86_64, ARM64, and RISC-V
  • VGA graphics mode using SPICE and QXL
  • Text terminal mode
  • USB devices
  • JIT based acceleration using QEMU TCG
  • Frontend designed from scratch for macOS 11 and iOS 11+ using the latest and greatest APIs
  • Create, manage, run VMs directly from your device

Additional macOS Features

  • Hardware accelerated virtualization using Hypervisor.framework and QEMU
  • Boot macOS guests with Virtualization.framework on macOS 12+

Version for macOS is available at https://mac.getutm.app/ Apple Silicon is natively supported.

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