Can we boot Ubuntu Server (aarch64) *.img?

[pentago]

As stated in headline, can Ubuntu Server (or Raspberry Pi OS) *.img file can be booted somehow with UTM?

Thanks!

[Meligy]

I do that just fine. You choose the x64 architecture and the rest can pretty much stay on defaults.

This is better added to discussions BTW not issues:
https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/discussions

[pentago]

@Meligy That's good news. I tried literally every option I found on the web and none of them worked for me.

This is how I tried booting a ARM64 Ubuntu Server .img on Macbook Pro M1:

qemu-system-arm -kernel kernel-qemu-5.10.63-bullseye \
-no-reboot \
-cpu arm1176 \
-m 256 \
-machine versatilepb \
-serial stdio \
-append "root=/dev/sda2 panic=1 rootfstype=ext4 rw" \
-drive "file=ubuntu-21.10-preinstalled-server-arm64+raspi.img,index=1,media=disk,format=raw" \
-dtb versatile-pb-bullseye-5.10.63.dtb \
-net nic \
-net user,hostfwd=tcp::2222-:22

Can you share your config so I can see if I'm missing something?
Thanks in advance!

[Meligy]

@pentago you can see mine in this other issue: #3541