Andy Griffiths

I noticed that I couldn't select it when reviewing apple.stackexchange.com/questions/476285/… which you since closed as 'does not appear to be about Apple hardware or software within the scope defined in the help center'. That was the option that was unavailable to me. As I felt I could not use any of the other options to close I ended up skipping it.

@bmike It's not a question about the usage of options (the thought process leading to a decision), but that the options I have appear to have changed on the site. Just no blatantly off-topic choice (the one stating 'nothing to do with Apple hardware or related software').

@bmike, any thoughts?

... but no "blatant"

Interesting... I get the same options for "Flag" and "Close" -> Needs Improvement -> A community-specific reason -> then either of "Questions must demonstrate a reasonable amount of research...", "Questions about software development are off-topic...", "Questions asking to recommend...", "This question belongs on another site...", or "Other (add comment)"

Has the 'blatantly off-topic (nothing to do with Apple hardware & software)' flag disappeared recently?

Ah yes. Apt description. Thx

Just scrolling backwards to catch up on chat... What's HNQ? High noise questions?

@bmike I suspect that a lot of journos have taken "- Improves compatibility with third-party security software" at face value, and assumed "that fixes it then...".

Oh ignore me, the same one. I had not noticed the comments that you siphoned off!

Hi @bmike. Yes, a similar question?

No problem! Happy to help

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.

Okdoke. If you wish we could also clean up the comments on the answer. Once we achieve some resolution I can work the changes into the answer. re dl speed I am distinctly more fortunate than you it seems, only 1/2 an hour away.

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

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

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

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

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.