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almalinux 10 fails on apple silicon #2618

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@mjhika

Describe the bug

AlmaLinux 10 is not building a vm on my m5 max macbook. This appears to be a result of the v3+ requirement from RHEL(-likes). Ubuntu 26.04 worked just fine emulated. Rocky and Alma 10 did not work. Alma 10 fails with an odd error. Rocky 10 reports the cpu hardware incompatibility.

To Reproduce

  1. Create a new alma10 vm
orb create -a amd64 alma alma10-test
# [-32098] create 'alma10-test': start: init runtime state: attach bpf: get netns cookie: no such process

Expected behavior

I expected that a vm would successfully create. Whiel RHEL (and Rocky by proxy) moved toward v3+ amd64 support therefore full emulation is required to provide AVX support, but Alma has chosen to still compile and distribute a v2 image. Therefore I expected the support to trickle down through OrbStack that would allow us to still use a v2 compiled image.

Diagnostic report (REQUIRED)

OrbStack info:
Version: 2.2.1
Commit: 0e182b501fcd9e05b99ffb363fce03610390c400 (v2.2.1)

System info:
macOS: 26.5.1 (25F80)
CPU: arm64, 18 cores
CPU model: Apple M5 Max
Model: Mac17,7
Memory: 128 GiB

Full report: https://orbstack.dev/_admin/diag/orbstack-diagreport_2026-07-29T20-31-53.422806Z.zip

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alma 10 error rocky 10 error

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