It's possible to use at Macos with Apple silicon processor?

[mgnkir]

System Information

MacBook Pro 16" M1 Pro

Linux distribution

Macos 13.2.1

Terraform version

Terraform v1.4.5
on darwin_arm64
+ provider registry.terraform.io/dmacvicar/libvirt v0.7.1

Provider and libvirt versions

.terraform/providers/registry.terraform.io/dmacvicar/libvirt/0.7.1/darwin_arm64/terraform-provider-libvirt_v0.7.1 0.7.1

If that gives you "was not built correctly", get the Git commit hash from your local provider repository:

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Checklist

• [ ] Is your issue/contribution related with enabling some setting/option exposed by libvirt that the plugin does not yet support, or requires changing/extending the provider terraform schema?

  • [ ] Make sure you explain why this option is important to you, why it should be important to everyone. Describe your use-case with detail and provide examples where possible.
  • [ ] If it is a very special case, consider using the XSLT support in the provider to tweak the definition instead of opening an issue
  • [ ] Maintainers do not have expertise in every libvirt setting, so please, describe the feature and how it is used. Link to the appropriate documentation

• [ ] Is it a bug or something that does not work as expected? Please make sure you fill the version information below:

Description of Issue/Question

Setup

terraform {
  required_providers {
    libvirt = {
      source = "dmacvicar/libvirt"
    }
  }
}

provider "libvirt" {
  uri = "qemu:///session?socket=/Users/USERNAME/.cache/libvirt/libvirt-sock"
}

resource "libvirt_domain" "test" {
  name   = "test"
}

Steps to Reproduce Issue

kirillkuchma@Kirills-MacBook-Pro libvirt % terraform apply 

Terraform used the selected providers to generate the following execution plan.
Resource actions are indicated with the following symbols:
  + create

Terraform will perform the following actions:

  # libvirt_domain.test will be created
  + resource "libvirt_domain" "test" {
      + arch        = (known after apply)
      + autostart   = (known after apply)
      + emulator    = (known after apply)
      + fw_cfg_name = "opt/com.coreos/config"
      + id          = (known after apply)
      + machine     = (known after apply)
      + memory      = 512
      + name        = "test"
      + qemu_agent  = false
      + running     = true
      + vcpu        = 1
    }

Plan: 1 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.

Do you want to perform these actions?
  Terraform will perform the actions described above.
  Only 'yes' will be accepted to approve.

  Enter a value: yes

libvirt_domain.test: Creating...
╷
│ Error: [DEBUG] Could not find any guests for architecure type hvm/aarch64
│ 
│   with libvirt_domain.test,
│   on main.tf line 15, in resource "libvirt_domain" "test":
│   15: resource "libvirt_domain" "test" {
│ 
╵

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[Magnitus-]

If you want to operate on a Linux machine via ssh from your M1 macos machine, maybe? (although last I checked, you needed to have a xsltproc binary setup in your path, not sure the status of that on macs).

If you are hoping to run kvm workloads directly on your machine... best of luck (as kvm is part of Linux).

I won't claim it is impossible (just highly improbable) as I'm not knowledgeable enough about the Mac ecosystem to make that claim. We have a colleague who was in your exact situation and he had to wait for a Linux machine before he could start working on our kvm tooling locally. He didn't manage to hack a solution around it. I haven't tried (I don't have a Mac and I'll be frank, my interest is low).

My personal advice: Either get a Linux machine or stick with containers in a Linux vm.

[fsdrw08]

any update for this issue? I just wonder if possible to use this provider to create vm in macOS with apple silicon base machine.

[michaelbeaumont]

This question isn't really specific to this terraform provider. First, figure out how to do this using libvirt, if it's possible. You'll need to determine the correct domain type and architecture. Then use those parameters with the libvirt_domain resource.

If you can create a libvirt domain on said machine but can't do it using this provider, then definitely come back and let us know.