QEMU exited unexpectedly with exit code -1, stderr: qemu-system-x86_64: Unknown Error

Question

Getting while running the podman command "podman machine start" in Mac M1.

Version Details

Mac version: 12.6

Podman version: 4.2.1

Qemu version: 7.1.0

Install Podman and QEMU by using Homebrew.

Please help in this.

In my case, I got a new M1 laptop and transferred all files from the old one. I had to reset the podman machine with:

$ podman machine rm --force$ podman machine init$ podman machine start

Accepted Answer

The issues with OS architecture. Change your OS architecture to arm64 with the below command, before installing the Podman and Qemu.

env /usr/bin/arch -arm64 /bin/zsh --login