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Unable to start Colima using VZ on a brand new Mac #1188

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@dcitterio

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It is not possible to run Colima in a new Mac after Lima 1.0.0 was released.

Colima requires qemu-img to convert the downloaded image from qcow to raw, but the utils is not shipped with colima formula.
It is shipped with qemu that was previously a dependency from lima itself.

Now Lima has no longer this dependency

Version

colima version 0.7.6
git commit: 3ab92f5
limactl version 1.0.0
zsh: command not found: qemu-img

Operating System

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

Output of colima start

INFO[0000] starting colima
INFO[0000] runtime: docker
INFO[0000] creating and starting ... context=vm
INFO[0000] downloading disk image ... context=vm
FATA[0071] error starting vm: error at 'creating and starting': error getting qcow image: exec: "qemu-img": executable file not found in $PATH

Reproduction Steps

  1. Remove colima and lima using brew
  2. Clean up colima and lima caches
  3. Install colima again using brew install colima
  4. Run colima start --network-address -t vz -c 3 -m 8 --vz-rosetta --verbose -f

Expected behaviour

Colima VM start with the expected configuration

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