Running CachyOS in UTM.
Hyprland Desktop Environment
Bugs
Hyprland becomes unresponsive after host wakes from sleep. Could be related to GPU acceleration.
Log out
Run hyprctl dispatch exit (Cmd-Shift-M shortcut by default).
If you are stuck, try Ctrl-Alt-F3 to get a tty.
Clipboard Integration
Not supported. See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/spice/linux/vd_agent/-/issues/26.
Virtual Desktops
s-Ffor fullscreens-<n>to switch to desktops-S-<n>to move active window to desktop, ors-C-<n>to also switch to the new desktops-up/down/left/rightto select active window
Keyboard Layout
Set kb_layout = <custom layout> in hyprland.conf.
https://github.com/CachyOS/cachyos-hyprland-settings/tree/master/etc/skel/.config
Screen Resolution
The default monitor=,preferred,auto,auto is good enough.
Custom resolution may fail to render properly. Try 1.5x and 2x if necessary.
Terminal
S-RET to start the Alacritty terminal.
Intel Macs does not support OpenGL 3.3 in VM, so you need to specify a compatible renderer.
debug:
renderer: gles2_pureYou could also install foot in chroot environment as a CPU-rendering fallback.
Mouse Cursor
Workaround: Add env = WLR_NO_HARDWARE_CURSORS,1 to hyprland.conf.
Actually a kernel bug. See https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/6581 for more information.
GPU Acceleration
Only OpenGL 2.1 is supported. Newer backend is under development.
gfxstream is an alternative library that allows the guest to serialize OpenGL and Vulkan commands, pass them through a communication channel (“pipe”) to the host, and the host will deserialize and evaluate the calls. It differs from virglrenderer in that there is no intermediate translation (guest Mesa → virgl commands → host OpenGL). Currently this technology is used for Google’s Android emulator and not by mainline QEMU so it will take some time for UTM to adopt the code.
Do not use the “ANGLE (Metal)” renderer backend. It’s OpenGL support is worse.
TODOs
- Investigate how ZFS chroot environment is set up by CachyOS installer.