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QEMU vs UTM: catalog facts
QEMU	UTM
Free Free and open source, with no paid edition.	Freemium Free and open source under the Apache 2.0 licence. A paid Mac App Store listing exists…
Windows, macOS, Linux, Command line	macOS, iOS
Emulates whole machines across processor architectures, not just same-architecture VMs Near native performance when paired with KVM or Xen	Hardware-accelerated virtualisation on macOS through Hypervisor.framework Full emulation of more than thirty architectures when you need a different one
Raw QEMU is a command line tool with a large and unfriendly option surface Cross-architecture emulation is far slower than virtualisation on matching hardware	Emulating a different architecture is slow The iOS version needs a jailbreak or a workaround for full speed
Downloadable app	Downloadable app
Open source	Open source
License: GPL-2.0	License: Apache-2.0
No account needed	No account needed
Works offline	Works offline
Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 20, 2026	Official website Full listing and sources Checked September 21, 2026

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