Now we can save and press play on the VM. Due to a bug in the current UTM version, we will have to install Kali in console only mode.įrom here we can add the device “Serial” under “Devices”: Other interesting Mac alternatives to VirtualBox are Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion, UTM and Multipass. If that doesnt suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to VirtualBox and 11 are available for Mac so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Once complete, we will hit save and then press the settings button. The best Mac alternative is QEMU, which is both free and Open Source. Now we are at the summary and we can re-name our VM to be “Kali Linux”. We again will skip changing anything on this page, however if you want a shared directory feel free to add it: In our case, we will be lowering it to 20GB and continue: Here we will be sure to lower or raise the size of the drive to what we will need. We won’t change any of the settings here, and will just continue forward:

Now we are only going to change one item, which is selecting our “Boot ISO Image” and choosing the ISO we downloaded previously. We will select Virtualize, as we will be using a Kali Apple M1 installer iso which will bring us to the next page:įrom here, we will select “Other” which will again bring us to the next page: After this we can click create VM and start the short process: We first download UTM and then launch the app. However, if you run Linux on the Mac with UTM, you can truly unleash the M1 Max. M1 on macOS, I would say the experience depends on your specific workload, but for me is fairly equal (I had an i9 MBP 16-inch - 32GB). To install and set up a UTM VM it is pretty straightforward. It basically kills performance when working on projects with large file volumes.

Utm apple virtualization vs qemu