Haiku installation difficulty in UTM on Mac m1

DigitalBox · December 30, 2024, 8:32pm

“There is no need to disable EFI boot” / “They used the wrong architecture in the emulation software, their issue was not caused by EFI”

I read again these sentences, but I’m not sure to understand anymore.

When I disable EFI on UTM for my MacBook Pro Intel it’s working fine, whereas it’s failing when EFI is enable. Is it possible to explain again in a few words ?

nephele · December 30, 2024, 8:46pm

The problem in this thread was that they tried to emulate an ARM cpu, where they needed to emulate an amd64 (x86-64) cpu.

There are no bugs reported about efi beeing broken in qemu (or UTM), and their vm seemed to work fine from the screenshot above even before disabeling efi.

If this really is a problem for you then report it on the bug tracker please.

Mehrab01 · December 31, 2024, 7:05pm

I am having the same issue here.

loll · July 27, 2025, 10:37am

Thanks for sharing.
To use it :

extract somewhere on disk
open with UTM
click on Modify on Haiku VM
Add iso to CD drive
Add a new disk (10Gb for test)
start VM : it will normally boot on Haiku installer
format the 10Gb drive before installing Haiku on it
reboot and stop VM
go to VM settings and put 10Gb HD at first on drive list
start VM and desktop should be loaded…

Done on Mac Mini M4.

A+