Running Colima with GitHub Actions on "macos-latest"

Open bennycode opened this issue 4 months ago • 1 comments

I tried to run Colima in GitHub Actions using the macos-latest runner, but the setup failed. I then checked the setup-docker-macos-action repository, which mentions that only macos-13 is supported and that arm64 processors (M-series) used on macos-14 and later images are unsupported due to the lack of nested virtualization.

I also noticed that the Colima repository itself uses the macos-15-intel runner: https://github.com/abiosoft/colima/pull/1425/files

Could you clarify this in your documentation or provide some guidance on the recommended way to run Colima in GitHub Actions CI?

Oct 05 '25 21:10 bennycode

Unfortunately, there are no real alternatives until Apple supports nested virtualization on macOS guests.

Oct 06 '25 16:10 abiosoft