[Podman] Re: Running x86_64-based containers on Mac computers with an Apple silicon (M1) processor

On 1/16/24 06:49, Matthias Apitz wrote: > Hello, > > For the purpose of the Subject: there is a tutorial at IBM.com: > > https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/running-x86-64-containers-mac-silicon... > > I've followed this tutorial, with a small exception, see below. > > The first step is to 'init' the machine with: > > $ podman machine init --image-path ~/yourFedoraImageFolder/fedora-coreos-39.20231204.3.3-qemu.x86_64.qcow2.xz intel > Extracting compressed file: intel_fedora-coreos-39.20231204.3.3-qemu.x86_64.qco… > Image resized. > Machine init complete > To start your machine run: > > podman machine start intel > > Which worked fine. Now, before starting the machine, the tutorial asks to remove the following > lines from the config file ~/.config/containers/podman/machine/qemu/intel.json: > > "-machine", > "q35,accel=hvf:tcg", > "-cpu", > "host", > > These line are not there 1:1 and I removed these lines: > > $ diff .config/containers/podman/machine/qemu/intel.json .config/containers/podman/machine/qemu/intel.json.saved2 > 6a7,12 >> "-accel", >> "hvf", >> "-accel", >> "tcg", >> "-cpu", >> "host", > which seems to me correct to remove the HVF QEMU accelerator which only > is supported on x86 chips. > > Starting the machine now with: > > $ podman machine start intel > Di 16 Jan 2024 12:23:33 CET > Starting machine "intel" > Waiting for VM ... > > hangs for ever and the QEMU process has 100% CPU utilization: > > top > PID COMMAND %CPU TIME #TH #WQ #PORT MEM PURG CMPRS PGRP > 10802 qemu-system- 99.6 23:09.43 8/1 0 27 163M 0B 0B 10800 > > Any ideas? Thanks > > matthias > > Sergio any ideas?