Is it possible to convert an "Apple Virtualisation" image to "QEMU"

[PicoCreator]

1. Is the "Apple Virtualisation" mode in UTM using QEMU underneath the hood - or simply bypassing it and integrating straight to apple code.

2. Is it possible to convert an existing "Apple Virtualisation" image to a QEMU image - if so what are the process to do so?

Side note: Damn the "Apple Virtualisation" performance was surprisingly good, and I would like to do some apple to apple benchmarks against QEMU. Especially on GPU related workloads

[iustin]

I would be interested as well on this, also on Qemu→Apple conversion. The disk contents shouldn't be impacted, but maybe needs conversion from qcow2 to something else.

[mikemallin]

I can't answer #1, but it is possible to convert a HVF raw image using qemu-img:

qemu-img convert -f raw -O qcow2 <Path/To/HVF/Disk.img> ~/output-img.qcow2

I'd suspect the reverse should also hold to go from Apple to QEMU.

[RonGros]

Did you ever test that? does it work?

[mikemallin]

I've only tested from img to qcow2 using a dev vm on my laptop. I haven't tried the reverse.