- Virtual machine ubuntu for mac install#
- Virtual machine ubuntu for mac iso#
- Virtual machine ubuntu for mac mac#
Virtual machine ubuntu for mac install#
Install Ubuntu using the installer that's in the Live system, and reboot the VM.
Virtual machine ubuntu for mac iso#
That's a bootable Ubuntu ISO that will boot the VM when it can't find a bootable system on the hard drive image. Drag your downloaded Ubuntu ISO into the rightmost drop well in ACVM, labelled CD Image (optional). That will be your blank hard disk image to install onto. That will create a qcow formatted image that will expand as it needs to until it reaches a maximum size of 20G, similar to a sparse disk image on macOS created with Disk Utility.ĭrag that hard disk image into the Main Image drop well in ACVM. Qemu-img create -f qcow2 name-of-img.qcow2 20G To create a disk image to install onto, use: Inside the app, in Resources, is the qemu-img binary.ĭrag that into a terminal window and it'll paste the path to the qemu-img binary. Using the Finder's contextual menu (right click, or control click, or use the contextual menu from the Finder toolbar), use Show Package Contents on the ACVM app.
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If you wanted (it'd be a huge amount of hassle for just this use) you could probably try building qemu yourself using source packages from homebrew, but I doubt that Alexander Graf's patches for qemu for the M1 have made it into any upstream packaging yet.Įdit: Give it a few minutes, and I'll have a video posted showing step by step what I mean. The library location is defined in the Xcode project file itself over on GitHub if you want to get a look at that. Leave the binaries where they are, as seen here: You can symlink qemu or qemu-img outside of the app, but don't try to run them as actual copies you've pulled out of the app, or neither of them will see the included patched libraries that let qemu run in the first place. You can get an installer for Ubuntu desktop (for ARM) here:ĭid you copy the qemu-img binary that's bundled inside the ACVM app bundle somewhere else and run that? All of the libraries that ACVM needs to run qemu are included in the app bundle, and both the qemu binary, and the qemu-img binary are built against those binaries running from where they are, with the libraries relative to the ACVM app itself. If you want to try it out, there's an easy to use packaged-up launcher (ACVM) for Qemu built for ARM on Github here:
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There's no support for high DPI displays (or associated display scaling) I can figure out, so no retina support, yet, and the builds of Qemu that work on M1 Macs don't (yet?) support Qemu's savevm command to save a snapshot of the running VM - so you're going to boot into and shut down the VM each and every time you want to use it - there's no support, yet, for saving the current state of the VM like you might be used to using in Parallels or VirtualBox, when running Qemu on an M1 Mac. It more or less works, and it doesn't lag on my end (an M1 MacBook Pro), but a couple of caveats:
Virtual machine ubuntu for mac mac#
I've used the ARM Mac builds of Qemu that are floating around to install Ubuntu in a Qemu VM, using the ARM build of Ubuntu Focal desktop (Ubuntu 20.04).