[GH-ISSUE #914] Boot loop on various macOS versions - can't get past the recovery screen #678

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opened 2026-02-27 23:01:35 +03:00 by kerem · 0 comments

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Originally created by @jefro108 on GitHub (Jan 26, 2026).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX/issues/914

uname -a
; echo "${DISPLAY}"
; echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/module/kvm/parameters/ignore_msrs
; grep NAME /etc/os-release
; df -h .
; qemu-system-x86_64 --version
; libvirtd --version
; free -mh
; nproc
; egrep -c '(svm|vmx)' /proc/cpuinfo
; ls -lha /dev/kvm
; ls -lha /tmp/.X11-unix/
; ps aux | grep dockerd
; docker ps | grep osx
; grep "docker|kvm|virt" /etc/group

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PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION_CODENAME=noble
UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 456G 361G 75G 83% /
QEMU emulator version 8.2.2 (Debian 1:8.2.2+ds-0ubuntu1.11)
Copyright (c) 2003-2023 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
libvirtd (libvirt) 10.0.0
total used free shared buff/cache available
Mem: 15Gi 11Gi 426Mi 241Mi 3.7Gi 3.6Gi
Swap: 6.7Gi 4.5Gi 2.2Gi
6
6
crw-rw----+ 1 root kvm 10, 232 Jan 25 00:14 /dev/kvm
total 1.1M
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4.0K Jan 22 06:18 .
drwxrwxrwt 37 root root 1.1M Jan 26 18:24 ..
srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 27 03:02 X0
srwxrwxrwx 1 up up 0 Jan 22 06:18 X1001
root 2912 0.2 0.2 2729100 38740 ? Ssl 2025 99:15 /usr/bin/dockerd -H fd:// --containerd=/run/containerd/containerd.sock
up 2962417 0.0 0.0 6548 2304 pts/3 S+ 18:24 0:00 grep --color=auto dockerd
kvm❌108:up
libvirt❌140:up
libvirt-qemu❌64055:libvirt-qemu,up
libvirt-dnsmasq❌141:
docker❌142:up

docker start ai i jovial.txt

Each time I try to create a VM with macOS I get a boot loop. This happens with other implementations of KVM as well. I can run VirtualBox fine on the same machine.

Originally created by @jefro108 on GitHub (Jan 26, 2026). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX/issues/914 # OS related issued, please help us identify the issue by posting the output of this uname -a \ ; echo "${DISPLAY}" \ ; echo 1 | sudo tee /sys/module/kvm/parameters/ignore_msrs \ ; grep NAME /etc/os-release \ ; df -h . \ ; qemu-system-x86_64 --version \ ; libvirtd --version \ ; free -mh \ ; nproc \ ; egrep -c '(svm|vmx)' /proc/cpuinfo \ ; ls -lha /dev/kvm \ ; ls -lha /tmp/.X11-unix/ \ ; ps aux | grep dockerd \ ; docker ps | grep osx \ ; grep "docker\|kvm\|virt" /etc/group 1 PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 24.04.3 LTS" NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION_CODENAME=noble UBUNTU_CODENAME=noble Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 456G 361G 75G 83% / QEMU emulator version 8.2.2 (Debian 1:8.2.2+ds-0ubuntu1.11) Copyright (c) 2003-2023 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers libvirtd (libvirt) 10.0.0 total used free shared buff/cache available Mem: 15Gi 11Gi 426Mi 241Mi 3.7Gi 3.6Gi Swap: 6.7Gi 4.5Gi 2.2Gi 6 6 crw-rw----+ 1 root kvm 10, 232 Jan 25 00:14 /dev/kvm total 1.1M drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4.0K Jan 22 06:18 . drwxrwxrwt 37 root root 1.1M Jan 26 18:24 .. srwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 27 03:02 X0 srwxrwxrwx 1 up up 0 Jan 22 06:18 X1001 root 2912 0.2 0.2 2729100 38740 ? Ssl 2025 99:15 /usr/bin/dockerd -H fd:// --containerd=/run/containerd/containerd.sock up 2962417 0.0 0.0 6548 2304 pts/3 S+ 18:24 0:00 grep --color=auto dockerd kvm:x:108:up libvirt:x:140:up libvirt-qemu:x:64055:libvirt-qemu,up libvirt-dnsmasq:x:141: docker:x:142:up [docker start ai i jovial.txt](https://github.com/user-attachments/files/24866011/docker.start.ai.i.jovial.txt) Each time I try to create a VM with macOS I get a boot loop. This happens with other implementations of KVM as well. I can run VirtualBox fine on the same machine.