Not able to run aerospike on mac m1 chip

Operations Installation
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I’m trying to setup aerospike on my mac m1 chip. following the doc https://www.aerospike.com/docs/operations/install/vagrant/mac, but I’m unable to making up the vm. getting below error : There was an error while executing VBoxManage, a CLI used by Vagrant

for controlling VirtualBox. The command and stderr is shown below.

Command: [“hostonlyif”, “create”]

Stderr: 0%…

Progress state: NS_ERROR_FAILURE

VBoxManage: error: Failed to create the host-only adapter

VBoxManage: error: VBoxNetAdpCtl: Error while adding new interface: failed to open /dev/vboxnetctl: No such file or directory

VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component HostNetworkInterfaceWrap, interface IHostNetworkInterface

VBoxManage: error: Context: “RTEXITCODE handleCreate(HandlerArg *)” at line 95 of file VBoxManageHostonly.cpp

if someone faced the same error, please help. Thanks

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Aerospike does not yet support the M1 architecture, so Vagrant instructions on Mac will likely not work with the M1 chip. You may want to try it with Rosetta 2 installed. Caveat: we have not tested the software in this environment.

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@neelp Is there any doc on running Aerospike with Rosetta 2 ?

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@Nanda, sorry, there is no such document that I am aware of at this point.

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Eventually I went down the path of running Qemu and installed Ubuntu amd64 on top of it.

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Thanks for the update. It will be interesting to know whether and how well this approach works out.

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aerospike-community/docker-amd64-mac-m1 lets you run emulated x86_64 Docker images on Apple M1 processors. There are instructions for running Aerospike Database server on it. It does use Qemu.