'Podman machine start' fails on status "Waiting for VM..." indefinitely

[chaitanyakolluru]

Issue Description

Trying to setup podman locally on my M1 Max (Sonoma version 14.2.1) using brew, can initialize the VM fine but the start command gets stuck at "Waiting for VM ..."

Steps to reproduce the issue

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. arch -arm64 brew install podman
2. podman machine init --cpus 4 --memory 8192 --disk-size 250
3. podman machine start

Describe the results you received

Podman machine start command hangs at "Waiting for VM ..." indefinitely.

Describe the results you expected

I expect the command to return a status suggesting that the VM has been started

podman info output

➤ podman info
OS: darwin/arm64
provider: qemu
version: 4.8.3

Cannot connect to Podman. Please verify your connection to the Linux system using `podman system connection list`, or try `podman machine init` and `podman machine start` to manage a new Linux VM
Error: unable to connect to Podman socket: failed to connect: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:60370: connect: connection refused


➤ podman machine start
Starting machine "podman-machine-default"
Waiting for VM ...

➤ podman machine list
NAME                     VM TYPE     CREATED        LAST UP             CPUS        MEMORY      DISK SIZE
podman-machine-default*  qemu        4 minutes ago  Currently starting  4           8GiB        250GiB

Podman in a container

No

Privileged Or Rootless

None

Upstream Latest Release

Yes

Additional environment details

Additional environment details

Additional information

Additional information like issue happens only occasionally or issue happens with a particular architecture or on a particular setting

[chaitanyakolluru]

Update: Was able to get it working after downgrading qemu to version 8.1.3. Followed this process here.