Can't start machine on M1

[per6x]

/kind bug

Description

Steps to reproduce the issue:

1. I first initialised a new machine:

$ podman --log-level=debug machine init m1       
INFO[0000] podman filtering at log level debug          
Extracting compressed file

2. Then I tried to run the machine and got this:

$ podman machine start m1 
INFO[0000] waiting for clients...                       
INFO[0000] listening tcp://127.0.0.1:7777               
INFO[0000] new connection from  to /var/folders/t1/wk3fwzss61vb_rjtwmnz1y4w0000gn/T/podman/qemu_m1.sock 
Waiting for VM ...
qemu-system-x86_64: Unknown Error
Error: dial unix /var/folders/t1/wk3fwzss61vb_rjtwmnz1y4w0000gn/T/podman/m1_ready.sock: connect: connection refused
ERRO[0003] cannot receive packets from , disconnecting: cannot read size from socket: EOF                                                                                                                   
ERRO[0003] cannot read size from socket: EOF        

Any Ideas on how to solve this?

Output of podman version:

$ podman --version
podman version 3.4.4

Output of uname -a:

$ uname -a
Darwin laptop.local 21.2.0 Darwin Kernel Version 21.2.0: Sun Nov 28 20:29:10 PST 2021; root:xnu-8019.61.5~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8101 arm64

I have macOS Monterey Version 12.1 installed.

[baude]

make sure you are using the qemu version installed along with podman in brew. secondly, if you have used or are using rosetta, that can mess up brew as well.

[laszlo-major]

Same issue, same version of Monterey, not using rosetta in the terminal and brew was also installed in apple silicon native mode.

podman machine --log-level=debug start
INFO[0000] podman filtering at log level debug          
DEBU[0000] [/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-aarch64 -m 2048 -smp 1 -fw_cfg name=opt/com.coreos/config,file=/Users/major/.config/containers/podman/machine/qemu/podman-machine-default.ign -qmp unix://var/folders/9t/g297flsj6zv0f819pl04jqrr0000gn/T/podman/qmp_podman-machine-default.sock,server=on,wait=off -netdev socket,id=vlan,fd=3 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=vlan,mac=5a:94:ef:e4:0c:ee -device virtio-serial -chardev socket,path=/var/folders/9t/g297flsj6zv0f819pl04jqrr0000gn/T/podman/podman-machine-default_ready.sock,server=on,wait=off,id=podman-machine-default_ready -device virtserialport,chardev=podman-machine-default_ready,name=org.fedoraproject.port.0 -accel hvf -accel tcg -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt,highmem=off -drive file=/usr/local/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on -drive file=/Users/major/.local/share/containers/podman/machine/qemu/podman-machine-default_ovmf_vars.fd,if=pflash,format=raw -drive if=virtio,file=/Users/major/.local/share/containers/podman/machine/qemu/podman-machine-default_fedora-coreos-35.20220103.2.0-qemu.aarch64.qcow2] 
[/opt/homebrew/opt/podman/libexec/gvproxy -listen tcp://127.0.0.1:7777 -listen-qemu unix:///var/folders/9t/g297flsj6zv0f819pl04jqrr0000gn/T/podman/qemu_podman-machine-default.sock -pid-file /var/folders/9t/g297flsj6zv0f819pl04jqrr0000gn/T/podman/podman-machine-default.pid -ssh-port 50546 --debug]
DEBU[0000] Using search domains: [nodomain basefarm.net basefarm.com basefarm.no lan] 
INFO[0000] waiting for clients...                       
INFO[0000] listening tcp://127.0.0.1:7777               
DEBU[0000] [/usr/local/bin/qemu-system-aarch64 -m 2048 -smp 1 -fw_cfg name=opt/com.coreos/config,file=/Users/major/.config/containers/podman/machine/qemu/podman-machine-default.ign -qmp unix://var/folders/9t/g297flsj6zv0f819pl04jqrr0000gn/T/podman/qmp_podman-machine-default.sock,server=on,wait=off -netdev socket,id=vlan,fd=3 -device virtio-net-pci,netdev=vlan,mac=5a:94:ef:e4:0c:ee -device virtio-serial -chardev socket,path=/var/folders/9t/g297flsj6zv0f819pl04jqrr0000gn/T/podman/podman-machine-default_ready.sock,server=on,wait=off,id=podman-machine-default_ready -device virtserialport,chardev=podman-machine-default_ready,name=org.fedoraproject.port.0 -accel hvf -accel tcg -cpu cortex-a57 -M virt,highmem=off -drive file=/usr/local/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on -drive file=/Users/major/.local/share/containers/podman/machine/qemu/podman-machine-default_ovmf_vars.fd,if=pflash,format=raw -drive if=virtio,file=/Users/major/.local/share/containers/podman/machine/qemu/podman-machine-default_fedora-coreos-35.20220103.2.0-qemu.aarch64.qcow2] 
INFO[0000] new connection from  to /var/folders/9t/g297flsj6zv0f819pl04jqrr0000gn/T/podman/qemu_podman-machine-default.sock 
Waiting for VM ...
Error: dial unix /var/folders/9t/g297flsj6zv0f819pl04jqrr0000gn/T/podman/podman-machine-default_ready.sock: connect: no such file or directory
ERRO[0003] cannot receive packets from , disconnecting: cannot read size from socket: EOF 
ERRO[0003] cannot read size from socket: EOF                                      

Are the steps described in https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/5d2c03e8b0283446aec6da2ac4ad45262c4244bd/docs/tutorials/mac_experimental.md still required? And if yes, where are we supposed to find the binaries used in step 8?

[baude]

@laszlo-major you no longer need to build it ... i will update the docs

[baude]

@laszlo-major also, this is different ... notice your calls are calling the aarch64 qemu. The original reported shows it calling x86_64

[daiaji]

@laszlo-major also, this is different ... notice your calls are calling the aarch64 qemu. The original reported shows it calling x86_64

I don't particularly understand, isn't M1 the SOC of ARM64? Why would QEMU for X86_64 be started, wouldn't this cause a considerable performance penalty? Does arm not provide virtualization technology similar to VT-x?

[per6x]

I solved the problem by reinstalling both podman and qemu. Apparently either one of them or both were installed for x86 and not arm.
Thanks for the help!