QEMU is a hardware emulator which can make use of different accelerators when running VMs. Note for users on macOS 11.0: follow this post first to get qemu to run. In this blog post we’re going to create a Ubuntu 20.04 VM using QEMU on MacOS. Home Using QEMU to create a Ubuntu 20.04 Desktop VM on macOS September 20, 2020.If any of you want to try this, and have a nice fancy frontend to qemu, check out UTM: Unsure if performance s the same/worse as compiling from ….