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You can run apple virtualization VMs in two networking modes on UTM:

  • Bridged networking
    • This adds the VM on the same network as your mac, although this works, there're few problems:
      • if you're connected to wifi, mac bridge might silently drop ARP packets leading to lossed connectivity intermittently.
      • You're now dependent on the wifi, if you disconnect wifi, you mysteriously lose connectivity
  • Shared networking
    • despite what this name suggest, you cannot reach VM1 to VM2
    • adding forwarding config on mac doesn't work
    • and this is how this is supposed to be, refs:
      • https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/4448
      • https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/6975

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