Hi. I just wanted to share something that worked for me when Rancher Desktop wouldn't start. It was stuck on

Waiting for Kubernetes API

. Looking at the logs, I found

lima.log

had repeating messages indicating

no space left on device

. To get off the ground, I did the following: 1.

set LIMA_HOME ~/Library/Application Support/rancher-desktop/lima

2.

export LIMA_HOME

3. identify the disk size a.

"/Applications/Rancher <http://Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl|Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl>" list --json

b. returned

107374182400

or about 100GiB I guess 4. stop the VM a.

"/Applications/Rancher <http://Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl|Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl>" stop 0

5. increase the VM size a.

"/Applications/Rancher <http://Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl|Desktop.app/Contents/Resources/resources/darwin/lima/bin/limactl>" edit 0 --disk 117374182400

(just added 10000000000 to the earlier number 6. started Rancher Desktop ✅