What Happened?

Some projects do not build container images for arm64 (aarch64 on linux). When using minikube on Apple silicon macs, the container will fail to start.

vfkit already support Rosetta:
https://github.com/crc-org/vfkit/blob/main/doc/usage.md#rosetta

Enabling the feature requires:

1. Adding --device rosetta:

--device rosetta,mountTag=minikube-rosetta 

2. Mounting the roseta share in the guest:

mount -t virtiofs minikube-rosetta /mnt/minikube-rosetta 

3. Configure binfmt to use the rosetta binary for x86_64 executables

sudo /usr/sbin/update-binfmts --install rosetta /mnt/minikube-rosetta/rosetta \ --magic "\x7fELF\x02\x01\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x02\x00\x3e\x00" \ --mask "\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfe\xfe\x00\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xff\xfe\xff\xff\xff" \ --credentials yes --preserve yes --fix-binary yes 

Issues:

• update-binfmts is not installed in our iso, we need to add it.

See also

• vfkit rosetta docs
• lima have full support for rosetta. You only need to add the --rosetta flag and it handles the rest.