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Native Apple Rosetta translation layer

On macOS, Podman machine creates a virtual machine that uses the native Apple hypervisor applehv with Rosetta enabled by default. This increases the speed of any x86_64 builds or containers to near-native levels by using a translation layer.

Rosetta support is enabled by default on all new Podman machine installations. If you disable Rosetta, qemu will instead be used.

Prerequisites​

  • macOS Silicon

Procedure​

To enable Rosetta support, re-create your Podman machine instance:

  1. Delete your Podman machine.

  2. Enable Rosetta support under Settings:

rosetta

  1. Re-create your Podman machine.

Verification​

To verify that Rosetta has been enabled or disabled, check your ~/.config/containers/containers.conf configuration.

You will see the rosetta configuration parameter with either true or false. If the parameter does not exist, Rosetta is already enabled by default.

Additional resources​