Hi, did you install aarch64 version? https://github.com/rancher-sandbox/rancher-desktop/releases/download/v1.5.0/Rancher.Desktop-1.5.0.aarch64.dmg

For our aarch64 version, currently the UI (electron) is running under Rosetta, but the actual VM is aarch64-native. Since the actual workload isn't under Rosetta it should be fine for now — there's an in progress PR for switching, but it's not ready yet.

Thank you @proud-jewelry-46860, that would explain it. Note that because the UI is under Rosetta, it appear all of its children also end up invoked for Intel arch as well (ssh, sudo, etc. etc.)

Right, that makes sense; we probably should consider moving that up then.