Last updated on 7. April 2022
It’s possible to use brew to install Podman on Apple Silicon (M1). The installation gets slightly more complicated when the user wants to use Homebrew installed in user’s home directory.
Problem #1 – gvproxy
Command:
podman machine start
Error:
Error: unable to start host networking: "could not find \"gvproxy\" in one of ....
Solution: add path to Podman’s helper binaries stored in bin and libexec to ~/.config/containers/containers.conf
[engine] helper_binaries_dir=["/Users/georgik.rocks/brew/Cellar/podman/4.0.3/bin","/Users/georgik.rocks/brew/Cellar/podman/4.0.3/libexec"]
Problem #2 – edk2-aarch64-code.fd
Command:
podman machine start
Error:
INFO[0000] new connection from to /tmp/podman/qemu_podman-machine-default.sock Waiting for VM ... qemu-system-aarch64: -drive file=edk2-aarch64-code.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on: Could not open 'edk2-aarch64-code.fd': No such file or directory Error: dial unix /tmp/podman/podman-machine-default_ready.sock: connect: connection refused ERRO[0003] cannot receive packets from , disconnecting: cannot read size from socket: EOF ERRO[0003] cannot read size from socket: EOF
Solution: Open file ~/.config/containers/podman/machine/qemu/podman-machine-default.json and change to /Users/USERNAME/brew/Cellar/qemu/6.2.0_1/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd
"file=/Users/georgik.rocks/brew/Cellar/qemu/6.2.0_1/share/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on"
After these changes Podman should start without problem.