Running ARM64 image on Windows 11 x86_64

[UltraWelfare]

I'm trying to run
podman run --platform linux/arm64 -it ubuntu and it fails with:

{"msg":"exec container process `/bin/bash`: Exec format error","level":"error","time":"2024-07-17T19:36:38.578148Z"}

After digging around, I've found that I need to install qemu's packages. However I figured out that:

• Package qemu-user-static-arm-2:8.2.2-1.fc40.x86_64 is already installed.
• Package qemu-user-static-aarch64-2:8.2.2-1.fc40.x86_64 is already installed.

It seems like the qemu packages are already pre-installed in the latest machine versions (I downloaded podman like an hour ago).

Any indications on what might be going wrong?

[UltraWelfare]

Just found out, binfmt_misc is having issues:

× systemd-binfmt.service - Set Up Additional Binary Formats
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/system
d-binfmt.service; static)
    Drop-In: /usr/lib/systemd/system/service.d
             └─10-timeout-abort.conf
     Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2024-07-17 22:55:43 EEST; 2min 10s ago
       Docs: man:systemd-binfmt.service(8)
             man:binfmt.d(5)
             https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.htm
l
             https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Softwa
re/systemd/APIFileSystems
   Main PID: 74 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jul 17 22:55:43 UltraWelfare systemd[1]: Starting systemd-binfmt.service - Set Up Additional Binary Formats...
Jul 17 22:55:43 UltraWelfare systemd-binfmt[74]: Failed to check if /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc is
mounted: Too many levels of symbolic links
Jul 17 22:55:43 UltraWelfare systemd[1]: systemd-binfmt.service: Main process exited, code=exite
d, status=1/FAILURE
Jul 17 22:55:43 UltraWelfare systemd[1]: systemd-binfmt.service: Failed with result
'exit-code'.
Jul 17 22:55:43 UltraWelfare systemd[1]: Failed to start systemd-binfmt.service - Set Up Additio
nal Binary Formats.

Although proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount seems to be mounted?

[root@UltraWelfare ~]# systemctl -a | grep binfmt
  proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.automount
                                                    loaded    active   running   Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System Automount Point
  proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
                                                    loaded    active   mounted   Arbitrary Executable File Formats File System
● systemd-binfmt.service
                                                    loaded    failed   failed    Set Up Additional Binary Formats

[UltraWelfare]

Following this, seems like manually mounting solves the issue until the machine is restarted:

sudo mount -t binfmt_misc binfmt_misc /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc

then restarting the service

sudo systemctl restart systemd-binfmt

[Luap99]

tracked in #19961