Error: qemu exited unexpectedly with exit code 1, stderr: qemu-system-aarch64: -virtfs

[prabu4git]

Installed a podman on Mac M1 configuration from the following link :

podman-installer-macos-arm64.pkg

It keeps failing to start with the following error message:
podman machine start
Starting machine "podman-machine-default"
Waiting for VM ...
Error: qemu exited unexpectedly with exit code 1, stderr: qemu-system-aarch64: -virtfs local,path=/Users,mount_tag=vol0,security_model=none: There is no option group 'virtfs'
qemu-system-aarch64: -virtfs local,path=/Users,mount_tag=vol0,security_model=none: virtfs support is disabled

steps to reproduce :

podman machine init
podman machine start

[Luap99]

@ashley-cui @baude or anyone with a M1 can you reproduce this?

[baude]

is it possible you have more than one version of qemu installed?

[prabu4git]

I have this qemu version installed in my mac.

qemu-system-x86_64 --version
QEMU emulator version 6.1.0 (v6.1.0-7-g8e52fc910d)
Copyright (c) 2003-2021 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

[baude]

@prabu4git you have an m1, but your qemu is x86_64 ... is it possible you migrated from an Intel Mac or have been using Rosetta? Sometimes migrations and Rosetta will confuse brew and will set the architecture as such.

[ashley-cui]

Looks like the machine is using the correct qemu though - as the error message is coming from qemu-system-aarch64. I wonder if you have another version of qemu-system-aarch64 installed though, from somwhere else that doesn't support virtfs

[baude]

is it not possible aarch64 qemu is also installed?

[ashley-cui]

Entirely possible

[prabu4git]

Is there any documenation to uninstall qemu completely and reinstall it? I used homebrew to uninstall and reinstall qemu.

brew install qemu utm

==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/formula.jws.json

==> Downloading https://formulae.brew.sh/api/cask.jws.json

==> Downloading https://github.com/utmapp/UTM/releases/download/v4.1.6/UTM.dmg
==> Downloading from https://objects.githubusercontent.com/github-production-rel
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Installing Cask utm
==> Moving App 'UTM.app' to '/Applications/UTM.app'
==> Linking Binary 'utmctl' to '/opt/homebrew/bin/utmctl'
🍺 utm was successfully installed!
==> Fetching qemu
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/qemu/manifests/7.2.0
Already downloaded: /Users/PMURUGE1/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/d23c81d59c3698b58f1257ee8c3e3332f30043fa74715f775f835a98b1a1add0--qemu-7.2.0.bottle_manifest.json
==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/qemu/blobs/sha256:fa987f9dc7708
Already downloaded: /Users/PMURUGE1/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/caa7e0351bfe23f800bbcffbbfaffa7a8d4ba62abbe6b6dfdcc3c2aa17c3eab2--qemu--7.2.0.arm64_ventura.bottle.tar.gz
==> Pouring qemu--7.2.0.arm64_ventura.bottle.tar.gz
Error: The brew link step did not complete successfully
The formula built, but is not symlinked into /opt/homebrew
Could not symlink bin/elf2dmp
Target /opt/homebrew/bin/elf2dmp
is a symlink belonging to qemu-hvf. You can unlink it:
brew unlink qemu-hvf

To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
brew link --overwrite qemu

To list all files that would be deleted:
brew link --overwrite --dry-run qemu

Possible conflicting files are:
/opt/homebrew/bin/elf2dmp -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/elf2dmp
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-edid -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-edid
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-img -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-img
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-io -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-io
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-nbd -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-nbd
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-storage-daemon -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-storage-daemon
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-aarch64 -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-aarch64
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-alpha -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-alpha
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-arm -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-arm
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-avr -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-avr
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-cris -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-cris
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-hppa -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-hppa
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-i386 -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-i386
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-m68k -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-m68k
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-microblaze -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-microblaze
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-microblazeel -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-microblazeel
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-mips -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-mips
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-mips64 -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-mips64
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-mips64el -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-mips64el
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-mipsel -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-mipsel
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-nios2 -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-nios2
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-or1k -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-or1k
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-ppc -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-ppc
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-ppc64 -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-ppc64
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-riscv32 -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-riscv32
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-riscv64 -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-riscv64
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-rx -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-rx
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-s390x -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-s390x
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-sh4 -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-sh4
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-sh4eb -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-sh4eb
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-sparc -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-sparc
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-sparc64 -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-sparc64
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-tricore -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-tricore
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-x86_64
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-xtensa -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-xtensa
/opt/homebrew/bin/qemu-system-xtensaeb -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/bin/qemu-system-xtensaeb
/opt/homebrew/include/qemu-plugin.h -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/include/qemu-plugin.h
/opt/homebrew/share/applications/qemu.desktop -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/share/applications/qemu.desktop
/opt/homebrew/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/qemu.png -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/qemu.png
/opt/homebrew/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/qemu.png -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/qemu.png
/opt/homebrew/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/qemu.png -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/qemu.png
/opt/homebrew/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/qemu.png -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/qemu.png
/opt/homebrew/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/qemu.bmp -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/qemu.bmp
/opt/homebrew/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/qemu.png -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/qemu.png
/opt/homebrew/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/qemu.png -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/qemu.png
/opt/homebrew/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/qemu.png -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/qemu.png
/opt/homebrew/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/qemu.png -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/qemu.png
/opt/homebrew/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qemu.svg -> /opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu-hvf/6.1.0-patched.0/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/qemu.svg
Error: Could not symlink share/qemu/QEMU,cgthree.bin
Target /opt/homebrew/share/qemu/QEMU,cgthree.bin
is a symlink belonging to qemu-hvf. You can unlink it:
brew unlink qemu-hvf

To force the link and overwrite all conflicting files:
brew link --overwrite qemu-hvf

To list all files that would be deleted:
brew link --overwrite --dry-run qemu-hvf

~ % brew info qemu
==> qemu: stable 7.2.0 (bottled), HEAD
Emulator for x86 and PowerPC
https://www.qemu.org/
/opt/homebrew/Cellar/qemu/7.2.0 (163 files, 508.7MB)
Poured from bottle using the formulae.brew.sh API on 2023-04-06 at 10:20:57
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/HEAD/Formula/qemu.rb
License: GPL-2.0-only
==> Dependencies
Build: libtool ✔, meson ✔, ninja ✔, pkg-config ✔
Required: capstone ✔, glib ✔, gnutls ✔, jpeg-turbo ✔, libpng ✔, libslirp ✔, libssh ✔, libusb ✔, lzo ✔, ncurses ✔, nettle ✔, pixman ✔, snappy ✔, vde ✔, zstd ✔
==> Options
--HEAD
Install HEAD version
==> Analytics
install: 1,164 (30 days), 111,995 (90 days), 682,171 (365 days)
install-on-request: 661 (30 days), 74,583 (90 days), 436,598 (365 days)
build-error: 1 (30 days)

[ashley-cui]

I believe the pkginstaller installs its own version of qemu as well, apart from brew. I don't think you need the brew version of qemu if you used the .pkg to install podman.

[prabu4git]

When i install podman from package it always picks up the aarch64 qemu version.. Any thoughts?

podman machine rm podman-machine-default

The following files will be deleted:

/Users/PMURUGE1/.ssh/podman-machine-default
/Users/PMURUGE1/.ssh/podman-machine-default.pub
/Users/PMURUGE1/.config/containers/podman/machine/qemu/podman-machine-default.ign
/Users/PMURUGE1/.local/share/containers/podman/machine/qemu/podman-machine-default_fedora-coreos-37.20230401.2.0-qemu.aarch64.qcow2
/Users/PMURUGE1/.local/share/containers/podman/machine/podman-machine-default/podman.sock
/Users/PMURUGE1/.local/share/containers/podman/machine/qemu/podman-machine-default_ovmf_vars.fd
/Users/PMURUGE1/.config/containers/podman/machine/qemu/podman-machine-default.json

[prabu4git]

I completely removed the whole podman and reinstalled the arm package. still no luck.

[github-actions]

A friendly reminder that this issue had no activity for 30 days.

[manico]

I have same issue. When MacOS is updated podman points to an old podman-machine-default_fedora-coreos-37.20230401.2.0-qemu.aarch64.qcow2 when I have in same location podman-machine-default_fedora-coreos-38.20230514.2.0-qemu.aarch64.qcow2

[ashley-cui]

Hi, are you still running into this issue with the latest podman installer?

[sherviiin]

try this:

$ podman machine rm --force
$ podman machine init
$ podman machine start 

[JayDi11a]

So I think @baude @ashley-cui and @prabu4git were on to something seeing as how I too was having the same issue (admittedly I had migrated from an intel to M1). I think what is happening in the case of brew install podman is that it pulls down qemu-hvf and qemu and then has you symlink. So what I did was first make sure the dependencies for qemu (and qemu-hvf for that matter) of course were met for brew. Then I ran the following:

$ brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies qemu-hvf
$ brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies qemu
$ brew uninstall --force qemu
$ brew install qemu
$ podman machine rm --force
$ podman machine init
$ podman machine start

This did the trick for me.

[ashley-cui]

Closing as this was an installation issue.