Experiences of running x86_64 Machine on Apple M1

[AdrianHammond]

Hi - wanted to share my experiences of running x86-64 machine on Apple MacPro M1.

My starting point was this blog . After making the suggested machine config changes I started the VM , it started to initialise but never completed. I spoke to one of the authors who wrote the original blog and the changes no longer worked for him.

I also found this repo which worked really well for me. I used the configure.sh to create the VM and the start.sh. When trying to start the machine with 'podman machine start intel_64' I saw this error 'Error: exit status 255'. This doesn't occur with the start.sh so I am assuming the the script is changing the timing as it pauses Podman/SSH while the VM is starting. Possibly the same as this issue?

Everything worked well until I tried a RHEL9 image and I hit this error 'Fatal glibc error: CPU does not support x86-64-v2'. To fix this I updated the '-cpu' setting in the config file by changing 'host' to 'max'.

I am running:
OSX - Ventura 13.3.1
Podman - 4.5
qemu - 7.2.1

I have opened this PR to reflect this change in the configure.sh