"make build/vm/ubuntu" failed about vmcli HOT 5 CLOSED

Would you mind posting your modified vmbuilders/ubuntu.sh?

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I ran into this same issue. My problem is that I am using nix as my package manager which is using the GNU version of dd instead of the FreeBSD version.

~ $ which dd
/etc/profiles/per-user/heywoodlh/bin/dd

The FreeBSD version of dd uses lower case letters for the block size (i.e. 1m) vs the GNU version using caps (1M).

I fixed my issue by modifying vmbuilders/ubuntu.sh to point to the MacOS-included /bin/dd:

# expand disk to 4GB
/bin/dd if=/dev/null of=disk.img bs=1m count=0 seek="$disk_size"

On a related note: I also had to modify vmbuilders/ubuntu.sh to use /usr/bin/uname instead of the uname in my PATH because Nix included an x86_64 version of uname so vmbuilders/ubuntu.sh was grabbing the x86_64 bit version of Ubuntu vs the arm64 version.

Maybe a fix for this would be to point the tools reliant on the included MacOS binaries by using their full path rather than relying on the user's $PATH to find those commands. I can submit a pull request if desired?

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@heywoodlh That'd be great!

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Thanks @heywoodlh !

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I second that: thanks @heywoodlh using the explicit paths for dd and uname also fixed my problem. I have the GNU binutils from MacPorts installed.

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