Minikube with QEMU won't start on macOS 15.2 and M4

[pascalrobert]

What Happened?

Hello,

I just moved from a M1 Pro to a M4 Pro, and got this problem:

ERROR: Unexpected error in object_property_find_err() at ../qom/object.c:1350:
qemu-system-aarch64: Property 'host-arm-cpu.sme' not found

Looks like it's related to: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/2721

Attach the log file

logs.txt

Operating System

macOS (Default)

Driver

QEMU

[svinther]

Seems if minikube could be made to start qemu with -cpu cortex-a57 then it could run as a workaround, but I don't think there is a easy way to have minikube do that ?

[afbjorklund]

There is a "CPUType" parameter to the driver, and it is being set (to cortex-a72) in the minikube registry:

https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/pkg/minikube/registry/drvs/qemu2/qemu2.go#L128

[svinther]

it ends up as CPUType=host here I think https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/pkg/minikube/registry/drvs/qemu2/qemu2.go#L149

However, seems no way to override that when calling minikube start

[afbjorklund]

Unfortunately minikube hardcodes most of the config passed to docker-machine, here is where it ends up:

https://github.com/kubernetes/minikube/blob/master/pkg/drivers/qemu/qemu.go#L383