Unable start colima in mac M3

[samantsu01]

Description

Trying to start colima using this command
colima start --cpu 2 --memory 4 --arch x86_64

Getting hung with message below

INFO[0000] starting colima
INFO[0000] runtime: docker
INFO[0001] creating and starting ... context=vm

Terminal is not available, proceeding without opening an editor

Version

colima version 0.8.0
git commit: 9c08cff
limactl version 1.0.1
qemu-img version 9.1.1
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

colima status
FATA[0000] colima is not running

Reproduction Steps

1. brew install lima
   2.brew install qemu
   3.brew install colima
2. colima start --cpu 2 --memory 4 --arch x86_64

Expected behaviour

should start colima with docker

Additional context

No response

[abiosoft]

Is that all the output you get?

[samantsu01]

I didnt get you question , can you please elaborate ?

[abiosoft]

Can you start with --verbose flag and share the output?

colima start --verbose

[samantsu01]

here is the output, not moving forward after that

[abiosoft]

That is very strange.
Does it start up normally if you do not specify x86_64 as the architecture.

[ddcech]

@samantsu01, not sure if it matters, but I did not need to manually install lima or qemu, steps 1 & 2 in your reproduction steps. Just brew install colima works fine.

These are the settings that consistently work for me to get my large project to run on M3:

colima start -f --cpu 6 --memory 12 --disk 50 --arch aarch64 --vm-type=vz --vz-rosetta --mount-type=virtiofs