Error: vfkit exited unexpectedly with exit code 1 on M4 MacMini

[mimi1vx]

Issue Description

any attempt to start podman VM ends with vfkit error message.

After upgrade (replace ) my MacMini M1 to M4 podman stoped working

Steps to reproduce the issue

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. podman machine init
2. podman machine start

Describe the results you received

$ podman machine init
Looking up Podman Machine image at quay.io/podman/machine-os:5.2 to create VM
Getting image source signatures
Copying blob 12113a444353 done   |
Copying config 44136fa355 done   |
Writing manifest to image destination
12113a44435343a5cb2f6fc1c8cb4589b359bafd6123aab0c293e9cf884184ae
Extracting compressed file: podman-machine-default-arm64.raw: done
Machine init complete
To start your machine run:

        podman machine start

$ podman machine start
Starting machine "podman-machine-default"
Error: vfkit exited unexpectedly with exit code 1

Describe the results you expected

started podman vm on my macos to run my containers

podman info output

Podman 5.3.1,  5.3.0  and 5.2.5

MacOS Sequoia 15.2 arm64
Apple Silicon M4

Podman in a container

No

Privileged Or Rootless

Rootless

Upstream Latest Release

Yes

Additional environment details

No response

Additional information

tested official podman release, homebrew and podman-desktop .. all results same

[baude]

could you verify no podman, vfkit, or gvproxy processes are running (else kill them) and then do a podman --log-level=debug machine start and report the output and anything you might observe ?