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Ubuntu 25.04 VM on MacOS host: Hardware acceleration not working in the latest versions of Chromium.

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Hi UTM experts,
I am running an Ubuntu 25.04 VM on a MacOS host (M4 chip), by using UTM 4.7.5 (build 118).
Everything was running fine, only a freeze every now and then, until Chromium recently was automatically updated to the version 146.0.7680.80.

Now the hardware acceleration is not working anymore.

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Overall the virtual graphic card is working fine, I see that I have hardware acceleration in Firefox, but I absolutely need to use Chromium with hardware acceleration.

Do you have any suggestions on how to solve this issue?

I tried to revert back to a previous version of Chromium, but I am not an expert and it doesn't seem to be an easy way to get a specific version. Switching channels didn't help and I was too dumb/ignorant to use snap revert before uninstalling Chromium or snap refresh --hold to prevent unwanted updates..

I tried to use UTM 5.0.2 beta, but Chromium is not even loading in that VM and it doesn't seem stable at all.

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