The new free PC emulator, UTM SE, is now available on the App Store for Apple iPhone, iPad and Vision Pro. This emulator supports various versions of Windows, as well as PowerPC- and RISC-V-based systems. If you are looking for alternative ways to use your devices, the Turing Software team has created this emulator, which will also be available soon on Alt Store.
The UTM SE app, which is 1,7 GB in size, is based on the QEMU platform, allowing multiple operating systems to run as virtual machines. Turing Software provides various configuration files, including Ubuntu 22.04, the ARM version of ArchLinux, Windows XP and Windows 11, which you can download for free from the developers' website. System images can be loaded directly through Apple's Files app, although you will sometimes need to download the ISO file separately and select it manually in UTM.
Turing Software recommends allocating no more than 20% of the device's available RAM to the virtual machine, as exceeding this may cause iOS to shut down the emulator. Although this restriction may affect how modern operating systems run, Windows XP, which requires just 20 GB of flash memory and 512 MB RAM, should run smoothly on an Apple iPhone 15. With UTM, you can run older software without problems, including classic games such as Doom and text-based games. Users can also save and switch between multiple operating systems effortlessly.
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