krunkit missing on podman-desktop 1.16.0

[gclawes]

Issue Description

Podman Desktop 1.16.0 (just installed, unsure if applies to previous versions) is unable to launch GPU-enabled podman machine, and returns an error in the UI (see below) related to krunkit being missing when one is created.

Steps to reproduce the issue

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. Install Podman Desktop via brew install podman-desktop
2. Skip podman setup during onboarding
3. Go to Settings -> Resources -> Podman and create new podman machine with libkrun GPU enabled

Describe the results you received

Received the following error in the UI:

Error: Command execution failed with exit code 125 Command execution failed with exit code 125 Getting image source signatures Copying blob sha256:cc337dac08f317e9141e55f324d3af74f5d72f39c797f8d1f396948854fa655d Copying config sha256:44136fa355b3678a1146ad16f7e8649e94fb4fc21fe77e8310c060f61caaff8a Writing manifest to image destination time="2025-01-29T12:56:40-05:00" level=error msg="process 85735 has not ended" Error: exec: "krunkit": executable file not found in $PATH

Describe the results you expected

Machine created without error

podman info output

$ podman info
OS: darwin/arm64
provider: applehv
version: 5.3.2

Cannot connect to Podman. Please verify your connection to the Linux system using `podman system connection list`, or try `podman machine init` and `podman machine start` to manage a new Linux VM
Error: unable to connect to Podman socket: failed to connect: dial tcp 127.0.0.1:52115: connect: connection refused

Podman in a container

No

Privileged Or Rootless

None

Upstream Latest Release

Yes

Additional environment details

Additional environment details

Additional information

Additional information like issue happens only occasionally or issue happens with a particular architecture or on a particular setting

[Luap99]

If you install it from brew than it is brew job to deliver the dependencies. You must have krunkit installed in order to use a libkrun based VM.

Podman comes with its own macos installers and they have krunkit bundled https://github.com/containers/podman/releases/tag/v5.3.2
We generally recommend that over brew.

[gclawes]

Ahh, so the krunkit install is part of the podman installer package, not part of the desktop install? Gotcha, thanks.