Hi! Getting closer, but I can't reproduce this on my system. I do not get the second dialog which is UTM requesting whether you want to attach the device to the VM. But, more importantly, the USB icon at the top of the UTM window is grayed out and I cannot click on it. It's good to know what it should look like when working though.

I also do not have an "input" tab in the UTM VM configuration options dialog, which seems to be where other tutorials are enabling disk access. My UI is similar to github.com/utmapp/UTM/issues/3778 but has an additional "Virtualization" tab that natevw there lacks.

Yes, that input tab is what I mentioned didn't actually have anything switched on, thus I'm unsure as to its importance. I'll add a screenshot to the answer that shows what I see. Maybe try to uninstall UTM, reboot, reinstall and redownload the Debian VM. I'm just checking to see if there's any other permissions needed (eg full disk access), but there doesn't seem to be.

Which UTM version are you using? Mine is 4.5.3 Universal.

I am using the UTM.app downloaded from mac.getutm.app on 2024.08.06. The only difference I've noticed so far is that I started with UTM's Rosetta Debian image. I will try to grab UTM's non Rosetta Debian image, but at pesent download time is 3 hours. I gave UTM full disk access for good measure.

Oh yes, you want the non-Rosetta Debian image. Not entirely sure why they label an ARM64 image as Rosetta.

In the interests of science I'm downloading the rosetta version to see if I get your issue.

UTM version is 4.5.3 (99) by the way. The impression I got was that this was arm64 Debian but built and set up in such a way that Rosetta could be used to run amd64 binaries. Pity the UTM image download speeds are so slow!

I think you are right with a deeper reading of the docs.

We may need to adjourn for today and resume tomorrow, after I've been able to download the non-rosetta UTM image.

Ok I'll go back and delete mine

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Just tried the rosetta image, and my experience is the same as yours. External USB sharing isn't available and tabs are missing / different in the config. I'm no expert in QEMU but it'll be something buried in the files and how that VM was originally built, but it's not anything to do with rosetta support. Maybe sometime I'll do a comparison, but for your needs the non-rosetta debian image should suffice.

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(Sorry, that was a stray command-b keystroke from the jupyter-lab tab;) It looks like the Debian 12 image is going to work, just need to get samba set up as I like it. I'll accept your answer.

Thanks you (: I was very lost and I appreciate your showing me that this was technically possible and to keep troubleshooting.

No problem! Happy to help