Alpine Linux in UTM VM

In the past I have been using VirtualBox to run Ubuntu Server VM in my macOS but I have recently migrated to UTM with Alpine Linux VM. It is so lightweight! Even on my old Macbook Air M2 it is not even warm.

Go to Alpine Linux download page to download for aarch64 version of the ISO.

Create a new virtual machine

Virtualize

Linux

512MiB with 2 CPU cores during for installation.

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Reduce it to 256MiB with 2 CPU cores after the installation.

Browse ISO image

Choose the ISO downloaded earlier then continue.

Disk space is not preallocated in full, I am going to set it to 8GiB as a start.

For shared directory, I’ve chosen ~/Downloads

Give it a name and check the checkbox for open VM settings.

Edit the network mode to bridge, choose wifi as the bridged interface and save.

Now run it. The default username is root with no password.

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