Hi guys! A colleague of mine has a problem with Rancher Desktop. He says his Rancher Desktop freezes upon intensive file system operations. He mentions that the problem for that might be related to the use of reverse-sshfs as the Volume mount type instead of 9p. He then suggested me to build qemu from source with the corresponding flags that would allow for 9p use because currently he is getting an error when trying to switch to 9p on Rancher Desktop UI. Both of us are not really familiar with the how rancher desktop uses it under the hood. I tested on my side changing my Rancher Desktop as well to use 9p but a screen error appears with a

Kubernetes Error

. In the logs, I see references to the following file:

~/.local/share/rancher-desktop/lima/0/ha.stderr.log

. After taking a look at that file I see the following line:

{
  "level": "debug",
  "msg": "qemu[stderr]: qemu-system-x86_64: -virtfs local,mount_tag=mount0,path=/app/voliveir,security_model=none: 'virtio-9p-pci' is not a valid device model name",
  "time": "2023-11-09T15:24:55-05:00"
}

Can someone enlighten me and point me to a direction to how to solve this? Some things I am confused about: • Does Rancher Desktop uses its own qemu binaries? • Do I need to build my qemu from source again with the correct flags for 9p? • It seems that RHEL 9 does not support qemu with 9p so I am confused about that also OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.2 Rancher Desktop version: 1.10.0