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Running x86_64-based containers on Mac computers with an Apple silicon (M1) processor

  • 1.  Running x86_64-based containers on Mac computers with an Apple silicon (M1) processor

    Posted Tue January 16, 2024 03:13 PM

    Hello,

    I followed the tutorial of Piers Walter, Francesco Rinaldi

    https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/running-x86-64-containers-mac-silicon-m1/

    to create a podman machine on my MacBook Pro with Apple M2 chip running Ventura 13.6.1. but the machine does not start:

    podman machine start intel
    Starting machine "intel"
    Waiting for VM ...

    (waiting for hours and the qemu proc runs with 100% CPU utilization)

    What could I do? 



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    Matthias Apitz
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  • 2.  RE: Running x86_64-based containers on Mac computers with an Apple silicon (M1) processor

    Posted Wed January 17, 2024 04:55 AM
    Edited by Soheel Chughtai Wed January 17, 2024 04:56 AM

    I guess you are trying to run an MQ container on your Mac. 
    It is now possible to build an IBM MQ container image for ARM, which means that you don't need to manipulate the podman qemu engine. 

    https://community.ibm.com/community/user/integration/blogs/richard-coppen/2023/06/30/ibm-mq-9330-container-image-now-available-for-appl

    I personally use podman-desktop which allows me to use either a podman or docker engine for the containers, and doesn't need the regular podman engine stop / restarts that podman needs. The docker engine can be installed without Docker desktop.


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    Soheel Chughtai
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