After waiting 4 years, and left 4 years ago there is Android

[Alberto]

@Torsten_B

UTM virtual systems must have the same architecture as the host system.

@npalardy

Thought I had read somewhere there was some support for running, in a low performance mode, an Intel binary on an Mx based system

UTM has two options one fast and the other slow, fast needs the same architecture, and slow emulates other processors, even PPC.

Ubuntu 14 is not available for ARM.

You can check the gallery to see some OS that can be run:

Gallery

@tigme if you install Ubuntu 20 for ARM it should work much better than Ubuntu 14 for x64 on your M1.

[tigme]

Will try some other options also, thanks for the extra info