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lima-vm commented on August 23, 2024 1

Cannot run "arch=aarch64" on Intel Mac

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jandubois commented on August 23, 2024 2

If you haven't see it yet, please check out https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/docs/multi-arch.md#fast-mode-intel-containers-on-arm-vm-on-arm-host--arm-containers-on-intel-vm-on-intel-host for a way to just run the containers in the foreign arch, but the OS itself at native speed!

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AkihiroSuda commented on August 23, 2024

ARM on Intel is very slow.
Ctrl-Alt-2 may show some progress.

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jandubois commented on August 23, 2024

ARM on Intel is very slow.

Indeed. Even slower than I expected. 😄

Ctrl-Alt-2 may show some progress.

Ctrl-Alt-3 does show the progress. It is easier to keep waiting when you see "something" is still moving than when you are just listening to the fans spinning up and watching a black screen...

I wonder if Intel on ARM is similarly slow, but I don't have a machine yet to test.

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bobhenkel commented on August 23, 2024

I'm having this issue on Intel Mac. Am I doing something wrong?

limactl start ubuntu.yaml
? Creating an instance "ubuntu" Proceed with the default configuration
INFO[0001] Downloading "https://github.com/containerd/nerdctl/releases/download/v0.11.1/nerdctl-full-0.11.1-linux-amd64.tar.gz" (sha256:ce7a6e119b03c3fb8ded3d46d929962fd17417bea1d5bbc07e0fce49494d8a09)
INFO[0001] Using cache "/Users/bhenkel/Library/Caches/lima/download/by-url-sha256/3304d173f1e1824e5be6cf84bf2f78825cf0db416c4c975dbb2458776942629e/data"
FATA[0002] failed to download the image, attempted 1 candidates, errors=[unsupported arch: "aarch64"]

Here's my ubuntu.yaml

images:
  # Hint: run `limactl prune` to invalidate the "current" cache
  - location: "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/hirsute/current/hirsute-server-cloudimg-arm64.img"
    arch: "aarch64"
mounts:
  - location: "~"
    writable: false
  - location: "/tmp/lima"
    writable: true
ssh:
  # localPort is changed from 60022 to avoid conflicting with the default.
  # (TODO: assign localPort automatically)
  localPort: 60028

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