# Using podman-machine on MacOS (Apple silicon and x86_64) ## Setup You must obtain a compressed tarball that contains the following: * a qcow image * a podman binary * a gvproxy binary You must also have installed brew prior to following this process. See https://brew.sh/ for installation instructions. Note: If your user has admin rights, you can ignore the use of `sudo` in these instructions. 1. Install qemu from brew to obtain the required runtime dependencies. ``` brew install qemu ``` 2. If you are running MacOS on the Intel architecture, you can skip to step 8. 3. Uninstall the brew package ``` brew uninstall qemu ``` 4. Get upstream qemu source code. ``` git clone https://github.com/qemu/qemu ``` 5. Apply patches that have not been merged into upstream qemu. ``` cd qemu git config user.name "YOUR_NAME" git config user.email johndoe@example.com git checkout v5.2.0 curl https://patchwork.kernel.org/series/418581/mbox/ | git am --exclude=MAINTAINERS curl -L https://gist.github.com/citruz/9896cd6fb63288ac95f81716756cb9aa/raw/2d613e9a003b28dfe688f33055706d3873025a40/xcode-12-4.patch | git apply - ``` 6. Install qemu build dependencies ``` brew install libffi gettext pkg-config autoconf automake pixman ninja make ``` 7. Configure, compile, and install qemu ``` mkdir build cd build ../configure --target-list=aarch64-softmmu --disable-gnutls gmake -j8 sudo gmake install ``` 8. Uncompress and place provided binaries into filesystem **Note**: In the following instructions, you need to know the name of the compressed file that you were given. It will be used in two of the steps below. ``` cd ~ tar xvf `compressed_file_ending_in_xz` sudo cp -v `unpacked_directory`/{gvproxy,podman} /usr/local/bin ``` 9. Sign all binaries If you have a Mac with Apple Silicon, issue the following command: ``` sudo codesign --entitlements ~/qemu/accel/hvf/entitlements.plist --force -s - /usr/local/bin/qemu-* /usr/local/bin/gvproxy /usr/local/bin/podman ``` If you have a Mac with an Intel processor, issue the following command: ``` echo ' com.apple.security.hypervisor ' > ~/entitlements.plist sudo codesign --entitlements ~/entitlements.plist --force -s - /usr/local/bin/qemu-* /usr/local/bin/gvproxy /usr/local/bin/podman ``` ## Test podman 1. podman machine init --image-path /path/to/image --cpus 2 2. podman machine start 3. podman images 4. git clone http://github.com/baude/alpine_nginx && cd alpine_nginx 5. podman build -t alpine_nginx . 4. podman run -dt -p 9999:80 alpine_nginx 5. curl http://localhost:9999