Let's cooperate with Apple Silicon support

[simnalamburt]

Hi @heyvito! I have patched and packaged qemu and podman to make it work with Apple Silicon, and now I'm looking for the way to integrate it with podman-macos.

This is how to use patched version of podman in the CLI:

brew install simnalamburt/x/podman-apple-silicon

# Example
podman machine init
podman machine start
podman run -p 8080:80 docker.io/nginx

I tried to use it with podman-macos and this is the issues I get:

1. podman-macos do not search podman binary in /opt/homebrew/bin

   You can workaround this issue by sudo ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/podman /usr/local/bin/podman, but it would be better if podman-macos checks the /opt/homebrew/bin. Maybe we can fix this by appending /opt/homebrew/bin at the end of the result of PMManager::paths.

2. podman-macos successfully reads states from podman but fails to write.

   After you deal with locating the podman binary, you'll find podman-macos successfully reads information from podman.

   

   But unfortunately any operation that tries to write something fails. For example, podman-macos is unable to stop podman VM.

   

I'm wiling to fix these issues but I don't know how to build or debug this project. Is there any chance for us to cooperate with these issues?

[heyvito]

Hi there @simnalamburt! Thank you for your interest!

I think that it would be ideal to bundle qemu, the VM base image, Podman itself (and perhaps Podman-compose). Could you share how you built the aarm64 version you're running in your system? We could perhaps write a script to be able to consistently create the binary, the image, and so.

You may be able to see what went wrong looking at Console.app's output, and filtering by Podman using its search field. I may have forgotten to emit log entries when something goes very wrong (like the case you mentioned), but adding those logs is quite simple, and I could also use a new release to see if Sparkle is able to auto-update the application in your system. :P

[simnalamburt]

@heyvito I built aarch64 version of podman and forked version of qemu with following commands:

brew install simnalamburt/x/podman-apple-silicon

and the definition of that formula is located at https://github.com/simnalamburt/homebrew-x repo:

• podman-apple-silicon
• qemu-hvf

And you'll be able to find pre-built binaries at github releases page:

• https://github.com/simnalamburt/homebrew-x/releases/tag/podman-apple-silicon-4.0.0-dev%2B20210905
• https://github.com/simnalamburt/homebrew-x/releases/tag/qemu-hvf-6.1.0-patched.0

And thanks for the note for the debugging. I'll try that method.

[sammcj]

Hey,

Just wondering if this is going to be merged in?

[simnalamburt]

Almost all patches has been merged into upstream main branch but AFAIK not released yet. 2021년 10월 26일 (화) 08:27, Sam ***@***.***>님이 작성:

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[mikebell90]

@simnalamburt is it not integrated and released? The podman blog implies it was and I successfully installed and used podman on a brand new m1 using just brew. To get x64 running I had to do the hack here https://edofic.com/posts/2021-09-12-podman-m1-amd64/
but that worked ok too.

[simnalamburt]

Oh really? Then the new release which includes M1 support must have been released. I tried to merge all custom patches that I have used in this fork to the upstream, and those contain enhanced versions of the patch. So if they have released the newer version of podman with M1 support, you'd be better to use them. Good news! Update: To clarify, simnalamburt/podman#5 (comment) these are the patches that is required for podman's M1 support and looks like all of them has been merged and released as podman v3.4.0 CC @sammcj

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