UPDATE (July 9, 2021): Parallels Desktop now runs on Apple Silicon, a solution that was not available in March of 2021 when this article was first published. UTM (which I believe stands for Universal Turing Machine) is an open source virtual machine environment.

While you might be spending most of your time in macOS 11 Big Sur, your job might require you to use Windows-only apps, Perhaps you need a Linux VM for development work. It provides the options to download Ubuntu Desktop as shown in Fig 1.Your shiny and speedy new Apple Silicon Mac is missing something – the ability to run virtual machines. Open the Official Page to download the most recent version of Ubuntu Desktop. You can also follow How To Install VMware Fusion On Mac. This tutorial assumes that you have access to a Mac machine with at least 8GB of memory and VMware Fusion is already installed on it. Notes: Make sure that your Mac machine got at least 8GB of memory having a multi-core processor to install Ubuntu On VMWare Fusion for optimal performance. The steps should be similar for other versions of macOS including Sierra, Mojave, and Catalina. This tutorial provides all the steps required to install Ubuntu 18.04 LTS as a guest operating system on macOS High Sierra using the Easy Install option of VMware Fusion 15.

We can run it as a guest operating system on macOS using the VMware Fusion without actually installing it on dedicated hardware. It might be required to try it out or run in the dual-mode without allocating dedicated hardware to it.

Ubuntu is among the popular operating systems used for production and development purposes.

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