M1 mac "gparted", "gimp" and other GTK apps on ubuntu 24.04.01 LTS

[itay-sho]

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Describe the issue
Gparted and other gtk3 apps doesn't work for me inside of Ubuntu 24.04.1 machine. I tried to change the graphics driver multiple times without any success, its display just doesns't render at all. (instead it "freezes" on what was there before on the desktop).

I am not sure if this is specifically related to gparted or other gtk+ program will suffer from the same issue.
I did try to compile it locally instead of using the version from apt - the problem remains.
Upgraded to latest UTM - still reproduces.

Configuration

• UTM Version: 4.5.4
• macOS Version: 14.6.1
• Mac Chip (Intel, M1, ...): M1 Pro
• Arch: Aarch64
• Qemu version: 7.2

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[freebrowser1]

What architecture is the VM running. Does it run natively arm64 or emulated x86-64 ?

[itay-sho]

it was a native arm64 VM, using qemu's virtualization (and not apple's one)

I did try to use GPU acceleration, after disabling that and creating a new image from scratch (from using arm64 ubuntu server 24.04 iso, then installing ubuntu-desktop) things worked fine.
before that I loaded my OS from utm's images catalog

[itay-sho]

Just saw this issue in the mailing list of qemu:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2024-10/msg00984.html

might be related, I also saw that I have a "available firmware upgrade" of qemu in my guest machine
I will attempt to upgrade it too and update here in case the it fixes the problem