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?

@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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They do, they just have put them in /usr/libexec/qemu-kvm instead.

@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?

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

@bored-farmer-36655 Well, if it helps I can do that. I have edk2-ovmf.noarch installed.

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

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? 🙂

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

I see. Now it worked just fine 😀 Thanks everyone for the help.