[ivankra]

> on UTM (QEMU and Apple Virt Framework), but many of them don’t appear to support GPU acceleration

Uh, it does. OpenGL/virgl works great out of the box for me with UTM and Linux guests (I'm on stock Debian stable), perfectly usable and performant enough to drive an external 4K monitor - my daily driver. Ditched my beefy Intel workstation for it, no regrets.

There's now virtualized Vulkan support which just shipped in UTM 5.0.0 this month - really exciting news! But it is still kinda buggy, so maybe that's your problem. Try UTM 4.7.5 or disable Vulkan (in UTM > Settings > Display) for now.

[darkteflon]

That’s super helpful, thanks! I’ll look into that - both UTM config and stock Debian.

It seems that it depends on the distro though - I couldn’t get it working on any of the distros I mentioned above, although admittedly this stuff is not my strong suit; rather than spend lots of time figuring out the ins and outs of each distro I was kind of hoping that commenters would help surface the best options for this setup generally, from which it would then make sense to dig more deeply. Or alternatively, get a steer on which distros to avoid.

One of the commenters below helpfully mentioned NixOS - it’s been great - GPU acceleration working out of the box. Good contender at the moment.