VM creation is stuck or failing
Scenarios
- The
anka create runs for a while but gets stuck. Typically stuck at prebooting or waiting for postinstall complete. - The Anka app creation process runs for hours and never completes.
Common Causes and solutions
- Anti-virus and firewalls (even the apple firewall) are blocking networking initialization. They need to be disabled, or anka processes whitelisted.
- The macOS installation has failed for some reason. You can open the
anka view {name} to ensure that it is actually stuck or failed.- If so, try running
anka --debug create... from your terminal to see if it works a second time. If it keeps failing, report the issue to Veertu support with the output from the anka --debug create command. - It’s also possible that you haven’t given enough resources to the VM being created. We recommend a minimum of 2 vcpus and 4GBs of memory for stability.
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