Attempting to start Rancher-desktop on Monterey with M1 - limatcl exited with exit code 255

[bconrad03064]

Actual Behavior

Attempting to start up rancher on new Apple M1 Pro. I'm receiving the following error when it attempts to start kube I believe. The application itself starts but when it attempts to start kubectl and load images I see the following.

Error: /Applications/Rancher Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl exited with code 255

Sometime it will throw error code 1 rather than 255.

Steps to Reproduce

Start rancher and the error pops up when attempting to start containers. I'm using a 16inch Macbook pro M1 running on Monterey.

I did try running the commands from this thread #532 but no luck.

Result

Expected Behavior

I would expect the container to start and see it working.

Additional Information

No response

Rancher Desktop Version

1.5.1

Rancher Desktop K8s Version

1.23.3

Which container engine are you using?

moby (docker cli)

What operating system are you using?

macOS

Operating System / Build Version

M1

What CPU architecture are you using?

arm64 (Apple Silicon)

Linux only: what package format did you use to install Rancher Desktop?

No response

Windows User Only

No response

[jandubois]

Looks like a duplicate of #3043.

We have some bug fixes in this area in the upcoming 1.6.0 release, hopefully later this week. Please verify if your problem is gone after upgrading.

[bconrad03064]

@jandubois Great! Appreciate the quick response.

[morlay]

1.6.1 still got this issue.

[morlay]

it works now.

once I use limactl start (installed by brew install limactl)
seems lima need to initial something into ~/.lima when first run.

[AlexeyRaga]

I have installed the latest Rancher Desktop to the fresh MacBook Pro M3, Sonoma 14.2 (23C64).
Getting this error, unable to start Rancher Desktop.

I have K8s disabled, but it still complains about being not able to start k8s (same as on the screenshot above)

[young0264]

@AlexeyRaga I hava same problem.

[feitm]

I have installed the latest Rancher Desktop to the fresh MacBook Pro M3, Sonoma 14.2 (23C64). Getting this error, unable to start Rancher Desktop.

I have K8s disabled, but it still complains about being not able to start k8s (same as on the screenshot above)

Same problem here.

[AlexeyRaga]

@feitm @young0264 Switch to vz engine and it'll start

[feitm]

@feitm @young0264 Switch to vz engine and it'll start

Thank you, that helped.
It seems to be the solution.

[young0264]

@AlexeyRaga Thanks for your �comment.!

Using the following command, I resolved the issue.

# init
rdctl factory-reset

#change to vz
"/Applications/Rancher Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/bin/rdctl" start --experimental.virtual-machine.type vz

[guysoft]

@young0264 worth noting though that it fixed the problem but also deleted all containers.