Highlights

• macOS Sonoma support New Apple Virtualization features include save/restore VM state and dynamic resolution for macOS Sonoma guests. Note that currently, you must remove the Sound and Entropy device in order to use save/restore VM state.
• visionOS support UTM is now working on visionOS but until we get our hands on a real device, it is TBD on how to actually run it. If you are a lucky owner of a development unit, you can try it out yourself with the provided IPAs.
• Automatically save state when you close a VM This will only work on VMs that support save states. If your VM does not support it, you will get an error message with an explanation.
• (macOS) USB commands in utmctl You can now use utmctl usb commands to connect and disconnect USB devices from a running VM.

Notes

• (macOS) If you are running a virtualized VM on an Intel Mac with TPM enabled and the guest freezes on startup, you will need to temporarily disable Hypervisor (Settings -> QEMU -> Use Hypervisor), boot into Windows, and then re-enable Hypervisor after shutting down. The TPM device changed in v4.4.1 and this causes an issue on existing VMs.
• (macOS) When entering full-screen, auto-capture of system keys in AVF (introduced in v4.3.2) and of mouse in QEMU (introduced in v4.4.0) is no longer default. You can enable the option in preferences (Cmd+,) under the Input tab.
• Linux guests: Mesa 23.2.1 introduced a bug that will crash UTM with the error GL_ARB_clear_texture. If you experience this bug, temporarily disable GPU acceleration, then downgrade your Mesa package (or update to the next version when it comes out/nightly build), and the switch back to GPU acceleration.

Changes (v4.4.3)

• Guest Tools: supports caching the latest version and will only re-download when a newer version is available (#5692)
• Fixed a bug where a suspended QEMU VM with a locked CD drive will refuse to resume
• Localization: Updated Russian (thanks @s0rd3s)
• (visionOS) Fixed display scaling sometimes not applying
• (visionOS) Reimplemented multiple-window support with newer APIs and fixes an issue where the main window is resized on startup to the last VM display size
• (visionOS) Process gaze touch events as indirect input
• (visionOS) Fixed an issue where the keyboard button was not opening the keyboard and sometimes causes the keyboard to keep popping up after being closed
• (macOS) Fixed an issue where efi_vars.fd is locked when the QEMU process deadlocks (#5769)

Changes (v4.4.2)

• Added some default devices for PPC64 (#5737, #5734)
• Fixed an issue where some VMs refuse to boot (#5745)
• QEMUKit: Fixed a memory leak due to a retain cycle
• Fixed an issue where ejecting an ISO or removing a shared directory does not sync after saving (#5708)
• Localization: Added Russian (thanks @s0rd3s)
• Localization: Added Chinese (Hong Kong) (thanks @changanmoon)
• Localization: Updated Chinese (Traditional) (thanks @PeterDaveHello)
• (visionOS) Added button to open preferences
• (visionOS) Removed unused options from preferences
• (macOS) Fixed crash when closing terminal too early (#5660)
• (macOS) Fixed duplicate windows opening when suspending a VM with multiple windows and restarting it
• (macOS) Fixed some resource leak issues when suspending a VM on close
• (macOS) AVF: Added MacBook Air M2 resolutions to the predefined list (#5716)
• (macOS) AVF: Fixed an error on deleting "vmstate" when force stopping a VM (#5758)

Changes (v4.4.1)

• Hide keystroke data from debug logs (#5651)
• Scripting: add new usb devices element
• utmctl: add new usb command
• Fixed an issue where bookmarks to removable drives and shares were not being saved (#5615)
• Fixed an issue where some VMs failed to boot due to suspend support probing (#5624)
• Fixed TPM support for x86_64/i386 VMs (#5619)
• Fixed an issue where starting a VM fails when a removable floppy disk is used
• Fixed an issue where the PTTY address is not shown
• Fixed an issue where new lines could be inserted into the VM name through copy and paste (#5627)
• Localization: Updated Japanese (thanks @MMP0)
• (iOS) Wizard: do not disable the emulation button even if JIT is not enabled
• (visionOS) Fixed build issues due to API changes in the latest Xcode
• (visionOS) Fixed display of release notes
• (macOS) Allow clearing of installer IPSW from settings (#5611)
• (macOS) Moved auto-capture of mouse/keyboard in full screen as a preference and do not enable it by default (#5633)
• (macOS) AVF: File sizes displayed are now the size occupied on disk to be more consistent with QEMU VMs (#5637)
• (macOS) AVF: Fixed macOS installer not working when a shared directory is selected (#5634)
• (macOS) AVF: Fixed an issue where shared directory cannot be selected from the home screen (#5617)
• (macOS) AVF: Fixed an issue where the cursor could disappear after a VM is stopped (#5607)
• (macOS 14) Wizard: Excess separators shown by SwiftUI changes are now hidden
• (macOS 12+) Settings sheet should have the bottom toolbar stop before the sidebar in compliance with HIG standards

Changes (v4.4.0)

• Fixed an issue where shared directories and removable drives did not persist when UTM is closed (#5531)
• Replaced ANGLE with WebKit ANGLE
• Fixed an issue in gstreamer which can crash if an error happens before start
• Fixed a race condition that broke BIOS loading (#5523)
• Fixed the automatic screenshot timer (#5541)
• Fixed UI lockup during a long copy operation when moving/exporting VM
• Localization: Updated Polish (thanks @ku1ik)
• Localization: Updated French (thanks @alex-kinokon)
• Localization: Updated Traditional Chinese (thanks @pan93412)
• Localization: Updated Simplified Chinese (thanks @changanmoon)
• (iOS) Fixed an issue where quickly double tapping on the play button results in various issues
• (iOS) Fixed "Retina" mode resizing so the native display dimensions are passed to the guest
• (macOS) utmctl: Fixed an issue where the CLI did not work properly if UTM.app was not located in /Applications (#5526)
• (macOS) Fixed window resize not automatically updating the guest dynamic resolution if Accessibility APIs are used (#5577)
• (macOS) Automatically capture the mouse (after displaying a confirmation message) when entering full screen (#5514)
• (macOS) Automatically save state when closing a VM (#5591)
• (macOS) AVF: shared directory is now automatically mounted on macOS 13+ (#5571)
• (macOS 14) Fixed IPSW selection
• (macOS 14) AVF: implemented save/restore VM state
• (macOS 14) AVF: enable Rosetta caching if supported by the host
• (macOS 14) AVF: automatically re-size macOS 14 guests

Issues

Please check the full list on Github and help report any bug you find that is not listed.

Installation

• iOS
• macOS

1. Hypervisor on iOS requires an M1 iPad.
2. Enabling JIT may require a separate JIT enabler such as Jitterbug or Jitstreamer.