And what I have is a Macbook Pro 16inch with chip 'Apple M1' and macOS Monterey 12.3. I was running into the same issue, either with qemu-7.2.0 which is from Homebrew or qemu-7.1.0 which is from Macports. (I was going to post it as a comment, but I found it has a little more words than I thought) QEMU 6.2.0 monitor - type `help` for more answer works for me. The monitor is a separate window with some sort of interactive shell and says the following (I tried the help, but didn't find anything relevant): compat_monitor0 console Ultimately, my goal is not to emulate but use the new hvf which became available with QEMU 6.2.0, therefore I assume I'd run something like this, but again, I only get the QEMU monitor window: qemu-system-aarch64 -boot d -cdrom ~/Downloads/alpine-standard-3.15.0-aarch64.iso -m 2048 -cpu host -machine virt,highmem=off -accel hvfĭo you have any suggestion as to what I'm doing wrong? When I try to do (in my opinion) very similar with aarch64 version, I get the aforementioned QEMU monitor instead (apparently there is no default machine so I use virt): qemu-system-aarch64 -boot d -cdrom ~/Downloads/alpine-standard-3.15.0-aarch64.iso -m 2048 -machine virt The following works without any problem, it boots from the ISO and eventually I get to login and have the shell available as I would expect (note that it's x86_64): qemu-system-x86_64 -boot d -cdrom ~/Downloads/alpine-standard-3.15.0-x86_64.iso -m 2048

I'm trying to run alpine linux using qemu-system-aarch64 on a mac M1/apple silicon, however, instead of booting from the provided ISO, I always get QEMU monitor.

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