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user's feedback when starting a machine if rosetta is not installed #23153

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today, if I start a podman machine without having rosetta being installed on a Apple silicon computer, I see sporadically a prompt asking me to install rosetta

But if I click no I just see 'exit 1'

podman machine start
Starting machine "withoutrosetta"
Error: vfkit exited unexpectedly with exit code 1

I would expect to see 'Rosetta is not being installed and it's not configured. Stopping'

or something more convenient for users:

  1. display that rosetta can be turned off in [machine] part of containers.conf file
  2. continue the start by saying Rosetta support is not enabled as it's not installed
  3. podman machine init could configure the machine without rosetta if it's not installed and display warnings about what we might loose/etc

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