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colima start fails most of the time: error validating SHA sum #1163

@pedroarthur

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@pedroarthur

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I had to run colima start more than 5 times for it to start correctly. I am running from AWS-hosted M1 and M2 machines. Output follows:

colima --verbose start -p default --cpu 8 --memory 12 --disk 256 --vm-type=vz --vz-rosetta
INFO[0000] starting colima                              
INFO[0000] runtime: docker                              
INFO[0000] creating and starting ...                     context=vm
INFO[0000] downloading disk image ...                    context=vm
FATA[0006] error starting vm: error at 'creating and starting': error getting qcow image: error during image download: error downloading 'https://github.com/abiosoft/colima-core/releases/download/v0.7.1/ubuntu-24.04-minimal-cloudimg-arm64-docker.qcow2': error validating SHA sum for 'ubuntu-24.04-minimal-cloudimg-arm64-docker.qcow2': exit status 1

Version

colima version 0.7.5
git commit: 1588c066b9ab9dae8205ef265929c7eb43dca473

runtime: docker
arch: aarch64
client: v27.3.1
server: v27.1.1
limactl version 0.23.2
qemu-img version 9.1.0
Copyright (c) 2003-2024 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers

Operating System

  • macOS Intel <= 13 (Ventura)
  • macOS Intel >= 14 (Sonoma)
  • Apple Silicon <= 13 (Ventura)
  • Apple Silicon >= 14 (Sonoma)
  • Linux

Output of colima status

(I don't know if it matters, but I run this after a successful download)

colima status
INFO[0001] colima is running using macOS Virtualization.Framework 
INFO[0001] arch: aarch64                                
INFO[0001] runtime: docker                              
INFO[0001] mountType: virtiofs                          
INFO[0001] socket: unix:///Users/ec2-user/.colima/default/docker.sock

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  1. colima --verbose start -p default --cpu 8 --memory 12 --disk 256 --vm-type=vz --vz-rosetta

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