hmm, I tried this yesterday, Catalina, fresh install of podman/qemu: ; podman machine start INFO[0000] waiting for clients... I

hmm, I tried this yesterday, Catalina, fresh install of podman/qemu: ; podman machine start INFO[0000] waiting for clients... INFO[0000] listening tcp://0.0.0.0:7777 INFO[0000] new connection from to /var/folders/tv/ykgkkzr902n062tzjgbtwdc1bgt9y_/T/podman/qemu_podman-machine-default.sock Waiting for VM ... qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn't support requested feature: CPUID.80000001H:ECX.svm [bit 2] I hadn't dug into it because the docs for this feature are still missing, and I presumed it hasn't launched - I'd seen it in the demo https://podman.io/community/meeting/notes/2021-04-06/#podman-on-mac-preview https://podman.io/community/meeting/notes/2021-04-06/#podman... So I took a look again: ; vim ~/.config/containers/podman/machine/qemu/podman-machine-default.json # added arguments to cmd, "-cpu", "host" # based on reading https://github.com/GNS3/gns3-server/issues/1639 for that error ; rm /var/folders/tv/ykgkkzr902n062tzjgbtwdc1bgt9y_/T/podman/qemu_podman-machine-default.sock # podman machine start will complain if you don't remove the # socket file after the crash above. `fuser` showed nothing # connected to it ; podman machine start INFO[0000] waiting for clients... INFO[0000] listening tcp://0.0.0.0:7777 INFO[0000] new connection from to /var/folders/tv/ykgkkzr902n062tzjgbtwdc1bgt9y_/T/podman/qemu_podman-machine-default.sock Waiting for VM ... ; podman machine ls NAME VM TYPE CREATED LAST UP podman-machine-default\* qemu 45 seconds ago Currently running ; podman pull alpine Resolved "alpine" as an alias (/etc/containers/registries.conf.d/000-shortnames.conf) Trying to pull docker.io/library/alpine:latest... Getting image source signatures Copying blob sha256:a0d0a0d46f8b52473982a3c466318f479767577551a53ffc9074c9fa7035982e Copying blob sha256:a0d0a0d46f8b52473982a3c466318f479767577551a53ffc9074c9fa7035982e Copying config sha256:14119a10abf4669e8cdbdff324a9f9605d99697215a0d21c360fe8dfa8471bab Writing manifest to image destination Storing signatures 14119a10abf4669e8cdbdff324a9f9605d99697215a0d21c360fe8dfa8471bab ; podman run -it alpine sh / # Works!