VA Installation

vishal_kejriwal1 · April 10, 2025, 12:43am

Anyone tried installing VA on the mac?

David_Norris · April 10, 2025, 1:00am

Intel Mac via VMWare Fusion? Or are you asking about Apple Silicon? If the latter, then I don’t think that’s happening. Incompatible binaries / processor architecture.

Or you want to run it via UTM / Parallel emulation?

vishal_kejriwal1 · April 10, 2025, 1:03pm

Thank you Terry for response . Its for Apple M1 Max.

David_Norris · April 10, 2025, 2:02pm

It seems to boot up fine in UTM.

Downloaded the OVA image then:

tar -xvf to unpack it.
Install brew, install qemu
convert the vmdk to qcow2 format with qemu-img
install UTM
Create a new Linux emulation in UTM.
Delete the IDE disk
Create an NVME disk and point it to the qcow2 image

Boot it up, …after grub, it will go blank for about 15-20 seconds while it loads the kernel. Give it a moment, and it’ll come alive.

vishal_kejriwal1 · April 10, 2025, 2:22pm

Thank you Terry
I created qcow2 image and then when i try to run from UTM i get below

David_Norris · April 10, 2025, 2:32pm

Remove the SATA devices. Your qcow2 should be mapped as an NVME device.

vishal_kejriwal1 · April 10, 2025, 4:22pm

Thank you Terry , i am able to start VA now.

I check this doc now i am not able to see ens160 entry for ip addr .

David_Norris · April 10, 2025, 4:29pm

You should have a enp0s1 interface.