SONiC container VM issues - sshd not running and missing admin user

[natsvn]

Hello,

Running into couple of issues when deploying SONiC container VM (built using this repo) via containerlab.

Host Platform: Apple Silicon
Docker Mgmt: OrbStack

Repo: https://github.com/hellt/vrnetlab/tree/master/sonic
docker ps
CONTAINER ID IMAGE COMMAND CREATED STATUS PORTS NAMES
5dff58988964 sonic:202411 "/bin/bash" 16 hours ago Up 16 hours (unhealthy) 22/tcp, 443/tcp, 5000/tcp, 8080/tcp clab-sonic-test-sonic1
428ca0274813 sonic:202411 "/bin/bash" 16 hours ago Up 16 hours (unhealthy) 22/tcp, 443/tcp, 5000/tcp, 8080/tcp clab-sonic-test-sonic2

SSH not running:
root@sonic2:/# service ssh status
sshd is not running ... failed!

ssh admin@clab-sonic-test-sonic2
ssh: connect to host clab-sonic-test-sonic2 port 22: Connection refused

admin user not present
root@sonic2:/# cat /etc/passwd | egrep admin
root@sonic2:/#
root@sonic2:/# exit

Thanks.

[hellt]

I think nested virtualization is not supported in orbstack

[natsvn]

Thanks for the quick response. Is there an alternate way to get this working?

[hellt]

I think today running VMs on mac is a challenge. You can try Colima or UTM as your VM provider on a mac, but chances are low.

[natsvn]

Got it. I went by the YT instructions that you’ve put together - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BTa-CiTpvI
Is it fair to assume that these instructions work for native containers on ARM but not for containerized VMs?

Thanks.

[hellt]

I think in this video I call out that nested virtualization is a challenge still on macOS and thus the VM based routers likely won't work.

Orbstack will add support for nested virtualization in the future and maybe then the performance would be tolerable