[Bug]: failed to boot container machine when running rockylinux/8-ubi-init image

[BeriBeli]

I have done the following

• I have searched the existing issues
• If possible, I've reproduced the issue using the 'main' branch of this project

Steps to reproduce

❯ container machine create --name rocky8 --set-default --platform linux/arm64/v8 rockylinux/rockylinux:8-ubi-init
Error: failed to boot container machine (cause: "internalError: "XPC timeout for request to com.apple.container.core.machine-apiserver/bootMachine"")
❯ container machine run echo hello
hello
❯ container machine stop
rocky8

Problem description

I tried running rockylinux8 using the container machine command with error, but the container machine run command worked.

Environment

- OS: 26.5.1 (25F80)
- Xcode: 26.5
- Container: 1.0.0 (build: release, commit: ee848e3)

Code of Conduct

• I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[sokoloowski]

Original Rocky OCI image lacks /sbin/initwhich is needed by container machine to boot – you have to build your own Docker image from Dockerfile, see my comment in other issue: #1685 (comment)

[BeriBeli]

Original Rocky OCI image lacks /sbin/initwhich is needed by container machine to boot – you have to build your own Docker image from Dockerfile, see my comment in other issue: #1685 (comment)

I used rockylinux/8-ubi-init which is not original.

[sokoloowski]

Okay, my bad, I didn't see this tag. I was able to successfully boot from this image without any issues:

❯ container machine create rockylinux/rockylinux:8-ubi-init --name 8-ubi-init
8-ubi-init
❯ container machine run -n 8-ubi-init
[sokoloowski@8-ubi-init container-machine-images]$ uname -a
Linux 8-ubi-init 6.18.15 #1 SMP Tue Mar 17 01:36:53 UTC 2026 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
[sokoloowski@8-ubi-init container-machine-images]$

[BeriBeli]

Okay, my bad, I didn't see this tag. I was able to successfully boot from this image without any issues:

❯ container machine create rockylinux/rockylinux:8-ubi-init --name 8-ubi-init
8-ubi-init
❯ container machine run -n 8-ubi-init
[sokoloowski@8-ubi-init container-machine-images]$ uname -a
Linux 8-ubi-init 6.18.15 #1 SMP Tue Mar 17 01:36:53 UTC 2026 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
[sokoloowski@8-ubi-init container-machine-images]$

I’m not sure about that. It reported an error during creation, but it seems to work fine when running. Thanks a lot for helping me test it.