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curved-oil-5381

03/13/2023, 9:49 AM
Hello. Im using AlmaLinux 8.7 with kernel 6.2.2 and installed rancher-desktop-linux-v1.7.0. However, it doesnt quite work. It fails because it cant find qemu-system-x86_64. Now I have linked /usr/local/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 to /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm but then it cant find firmware. If I edit ~/.lima/0/lima.yaml and change legacyBIOS: to true it kinda works if I run manually, but in a broken state as the rancher-desktop GUI isnt aware of it. ./rancher-desktop command will always fail even that legacyBIOS is set to true -- "limactl exited with code 1". Any suggestions of howto fix this?
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bored-farmer-36655

03/13/2023, 2:23 PM
@curved-oil-5381 Hi, so AlmaLinux doesn't provide qemu packages? If /usr/local/bin is in your path, all should be good
which qemu-system-x86_64
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curved-oil-5381

03/13/2023, 3:12 PM
They do, they just have put them in /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm instead.
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bored-farmer-36655

03/13/2023, 3:26 PM
@curved-oil-5381 You don't have to add your user to a qemu group or similar? On Tumbleweed (same kernel as you) all is good. Perhaps still missing some of the qemu ovmf packages?
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jolly-forest-99711

03/13/2023, 4:09 PM
Which package format did you use to install Rancher Desktop? This sounds like you used the rpm, which is only supported on SUSE-based distros. On RHEL-based distros, the AppImage must be used
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curved-oil-5381

03/13/2023, 4:35 PM
@bored-farmer-36655 Well, if it helps I can do that. I have edk2-ovmf.noarch installed.
@jolly-forest-99711 unzipped the zip and run ./rancher-desktop... Okey, I see. Thanks.
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jolly-forest-99711

03/13/2023, 4:43 PM
As in you downloaded it from the github release? That is definitely not the way to do it 🙂 You might find the Linux installation docs helpful
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curved-oil-5381

03/13/2023, 4:49 PM
Yes 🙂 I see now that it says "To use Rancher Desktop on these distributions, please use the AppImage." but it wasnt that obvious. Also, I have never hard of AppImage. I guess its like snap but maybe better? 🙂
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Oh, AppImage is basically a static binary. No magic here 🙂
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jolly-forest-99711

03/13/2023, 4:53 PM
Yeah it's a handy package format (and interesting if you dig into how it works). It serves the same purpose as snap/flatpak, but without the sandboxing, which would make many things Rancher Desktop does infeasible
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curved-oil-5381

03/13/2023, 4:57 PM
I see. Now it worked just fine 😀 Thanks everyone for the help.
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