podman start stuck on "Waiting for VM..."

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on mac m2 max, I installed podman using brew intsall podman, then ran podman machine init --disk-size 150, and then podman start. It's stuck on "Waiting for VM ...". I see this error from qemu: Synchronous Exception at 0x00000000BC562000

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Rony Tesler On BEST ANSWER

move to qemu version 8.1 until there's a fix. how to install version 8.1: nelson.cloud/how-to-install-older-versions-of-homebrew-packages

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RohitG On

Upgrading the qemu helped me start the podman machine again.

> brew upgrade qemu

More details can be found in the github issue below -

https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/20776