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QEMU is currently incompatible with M3 chips; this will be fixed upstream at the end of the month and should become available in Rancher Desktop in a February/March release. For the mean time you need to run in VZ emulation mode: Emulation (macOS) | Rancher Desktop Docs

I'll give that a try, thanks.

If you want to run Intel containers, then you may also want to enable Rosetta support. If you don't need it, don't enable it, as it will slow down the VM slightly.

Still having similar issues with VZ. Suppose I'll just wait for some updates and try again. Thanks for the info.

'time="2024-01-02T22:10:09-08:00" level=info msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \\"ssh\\""\n' +
    'time="2024-01-02T22:11:34-08:00" level=info msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \\"ssh\\""\n' +
    'time="2024-01-02T22:13:00-08:00" level=info msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \\"ssh\\""\n' +
    'time="2024-01-02T22:14:25-08:00" level=info msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \\"ssh\\""\n' +
    'time="2024-01-02T22:15:51-08:00" level=info msg="[hostagent] Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: \\"ssh\\""\n' +
    'time="2024-01-02T22:15:52-08:00" level=fatal msg="did not receive an event with the \\"running\\" status"\n',
  code: 1,
  [Symbol(child-process.command)]: '/Applications/Rancher <http://Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl.ventura|Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl.ventura> start --tty=false /Users/miller/Library/Application Support/rancher-desktop/lima/_config/0.yaml'
}

That would be a different issue, so maybe not fixed by an update. I would try to run the following commands from a shell:

rdctl factory-reset
rdctl start --experimental.virtual-machine.type vz

Thanks for the time, I'll see how far that gets me and upload logs if I hit more problems. Much appreciated.

It does, but it is too late to figure out now. I suspect that there were processes not properly terminated, which prevented it from properly restarting. The factory-reset is killing all these processes with prejudice...

Odd. I'd had some similar issues with RD when isntalled via brew, and then installed from the dmg off the website. I'd attempted factory resets on both after getting errors, and not until I rand the reset and VM creation via cli did it seem to work... in either case, I thank you.

These commands are saviour of people who are using Apple M3 Processors .. Thank you @fast-garage-66093 🙌

rdctl factory-reset
rdctl start --experimental.virtual-machine.type vz