Troubleshooting Colima Start Problems

All examples run on an Intel-MacOS

Waiting for the essential requirement 1 of 5: ssh

This has many possible reasons. In my case, what solves this is running these two commands:

• $ colima delete

• colima start --arch x86_64

You will still see the dreaded message once or twice, but it should work.

References

• The original thread on github

• Sometimes it's caused by a regression so you need to downgrade