Abiola from Colima I asume gave me the hint to run all kind of linux on an Apple M1 device:
So far its working great, but I struggle with KVM/QEMU related stuff.
While in Incus I run into an issue like this:
sudo incus launch images:alpine/3.23 a1 --vm --verbose
Launching a1
Error: Failed instance creation: Failed creating instance record: Instance type "virtual-machine" is not supported on this server: QEMU failed to run feature checks
With virt-manager it looks a bit different, but maybe its the same?
The two problems are unrelated.
The problem with Incus is that Colima spawns a virtual machine within which Incus is run. Because M1 Macs don’t support nesting, you can’t run a VM within the Colima VM. Maybe it’s not the problem you’re facing, as I don’t recognize this specific error message…
For the second one, you’ll have to find matching UEFI binaries (can’t help you with that one).
Which distro are you running? I assume you are on Asahi on M1/M2
If you are using Ubuntu or Debian, ensure that you install Incus from Zabbly packages.
Virt-Manager is not happy on Ubuntu, but both Incus and Virt-Manager works fine on Debian.
There are multiple quirks I had to deal to get Incus to work reliably on Fedora Asahi, and I was unable to get Incus to launch virtual machines at all.
In short, from my own experience on Asahi on M1.
Fedora - Incus only run containers, Virt-Manager works fine.
Ubuntu - Incus runs containers and VMs (if installed via Zabbly), Virt-Manager has issues.
Debian - Incus runs containers and VMs (if installed via Zabbly), Virt-Manager works fine.
But if you’re running Incus on macOS with Colima, then you need an M3 or newer device to launch virtual machines.
