M4 Mac with UTM

[SatoriSec]

Has anyone tried running omarchy in Mac M chip running UTM. I want to run in virtualized setup.

[jeffsauer]

Here are the steps I used... but even with the latest UTM beta, 4.7.1, performance is not very good. I haven't tried with QEMU 10 yet, which is part of the UTM 4.7.1 beta...

My machine is a M4 Max Studio.

Download ARM64 aarch64 iso from archboot.com:
https://release.archboot.com/aarch64/latest/iso/archboot-2025.08.09-02.28-6.16.0-1-aarch64-ARCH-aarch64.iso

In UTM, (4.7.1 or higher for OpenGL acceleration), define VM (32GB RAM, 256GB SSD, use Apple Virtualization and not QEMU) and define boot ISO

in the installer select mostly default values, define user, bash default shell, systemd, 0 size for /home for /home so that home will be part of / and not it’s own partition, etc.

network, for my system, enter enp0s1 as network name

if no network when booting VM, check using networkctl list
cd /etc/systemd/network and edit/rename enp0s1.network file, make sure network name matches the name listed as the device

run0 systemctl restart systemd-networkd

install wget and sudo: run0 pacman -S wget sudo
run0 nvim /etc/sudoers and uncomment wheel group

run the following command:
wget -qO- https://omarchy.org/install-bare | bash

it will fail complaining about x86_64 only. edit and comment out the guard for x86_64 in the preflight section (~/.local/share/omarchy/install/preflight/guard.sh)

make sure enviroment variable is set to avoid installing unwanted apps
export OMARCHY_BARE=true

run the installer that is already downloaded
cd ~/.local/share/omarchy
./install.sh