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Testing builds, under heavy development: these images may not boot or install on your system. Images are distributed by BitTorrent.

Heavy-development testing build. Not ready for production use. These images may not boot or install on your system. Published for testing and evaluation.

Current images

When a new amd64 or aarch64 build is published, its torrent and checksum appear here automatically. Images are distributed by BitTorrent only.

8 GiB RAM recommended for the live memdisk path. Guests with less often fail after boot with an empty root.

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Apple Silicon Mac (arm64): run it in UTM

The aarch64 (arm64) images run on Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later) as a virtual machine in UTM, a free QEMU-based app for macOS. They do not replace macOS or boot the Mac directly.

Install from the aarch64 ISO

  1. Download the aarch64 ISO torrent above and check the file against the SHA256 shown.
  2. Open UTM and click “+” to open the new virtual machine wizard.
  3. Select “Virtualize”. The aarch64 image matches the Mac's CPU, so UTM runs it with the hypervisor instead of emulating it.
  4. Choose RAM and CPU cores, click “Browse” to select the aarch64 ISO, then set the disk size.
  5. Save the VM and press Run, then install to the virtual disk. The installer always sets up a ZFS root.
  6. After the install, quit the VM, eject the installer ISO from the drive menu, and start the VM again.

Use a published VM disk image

  1. When an aarch64 VM image appears in the table above, download its torrent and check the SHA256.
  2. Create a VM with the wizard, then open its settings. Under Drives, click “New…” and import the image. UTM converts a non-raw image to QCOW2 when it imports it.
  3. UTM boots drives in list order: delete the empty drive the wizard made, or move the imported drive to the top.

These steps follow UTM's own documentation: VM wizard · drives and import · QEMU settings