[rickstanley]

When I had a Macbook from work, I set up an Arch Linux VM using their basic VM image [1], and followed these steps (it may differ, since is quite old): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enF3zbyiNZA

Then, I removed the graphical settings, as I was aiming to use SSH instead of emulated TTY that comes ON by default with UTM (at that time).

Finally, I set up some basic scripting to turn the machine on and SSH into it as soon as sshd.service was available, which I don't have now, but the script finished with this:

(fish shell)

    while not ssh -p 2222 arch@localhost; sleep 2; end;

Later it evolved in something like this:

    virsh start arch-linux_testing && virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp arch-linux_testing 'hostfwd_add ::2222-:22' && while not ssh -p 2222 arch@localhost; sleep 2; end;

I also removed some unnecessary services for local development:

    arch@archlinux ~> sudo systemctl mask systemd-time-wait-sync.service 
    arch@archlinux ~> sudo systemctl disable systemd-time-wait-sync.service

And done, performance was really good and I could develop on seamlessly.

[1]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/arch-boxes/-/packages...