Development on Apple Silicon with UTM

Summary

Development On Apple Silicon with UTM "UTM is an app for running other operating systems on your iPhone or iPad. It is not for running iOS on other systems. This allows you, among other things, to run Windows or Linux on your iOS device at a usable speed." – UTM Website In this article, I'll show you how to use UTM VMs virtual machines to create Linux development environments on Apple Silicon. This approach builds on the technique I described in here. Dependencies First, install UTM using Homebrew: brew install --cask utm. Then, install brew install cdrtools, which provides mkisofs. We'll use that tool to create an init.iso - our seed script for initializing the VM. We need a bunch of tools and images. Cloud-Init We’ll use cloud-init scripts to bootstrap the VM with the tools and settings needed for development - things like git, jq, go, docker, and more. We'll also use it to provision an SSH key for easy access. user-data system_info: default_user: name: fedora users: - name: fedora sudo: ['ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL'] groups: users, admin, docker shell: /bin/bash ssh_authorized_keys: - ssh-rsa AAAAB3Nza... groups: - docker packages: - curl - wget - git - jq - gcc - clang chpasswd: list: | fedora:password expire: False resize_rootfs: True write_files: - path: /etc/sysctl.d/enabled_ipv4_forwarding.conf content: | net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding=1 - path: /opt/go.sh owner: fedora:fedora permissions: '0700' content: | #!/usr/bin/env bash set -ex wget https://go.dev/dl/go1.24.1.linux-amd64.tar.gz -O go.tar.gz sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzvf go.tar.gz rm -rf go echo 'export GOROOT=/usr/local/go' >> /home/fedora/.bashrc echo 'export GOPATH=$HOME/.go' >> /home/fedora/.bashrc echo 'export PATH=$GOPATH/bin:$GOROOT/bin:$PATH' >> /home/fedora/.bashrc runcmd: - [dnf, config-manager, addrepo, --from-repofile="https://download.docker.com/linux/fedora/docker-ce.repo"] - [dnf, install, docker-ce, docker-ce-cli, containerd.io] - [systemctl, enable, --now, docker] - /opt/go.sh Generate init.i...