Unable to init podman machine on mac with provider applehv due to truncate missing

[adrianriobo]

Issue Description

Trying to start a podman machine on macos with applehv it ends up on error due to missing truncate tool

Steps to reproduce the issue

Steps to reproduce the issue

1. export CONTAINERS_MACHINE_PROVIDER= applehv
2. podman machine init

Describe the results you received

podman machine init ends up failing with:

Extracting compressed file: podman-machine-default_fedora-coreos-39.20231204.2.1-applehv.x86_64.raw: done  
Error: exec: "truncate": executable file not found in $PATH

Describe the results you expected

podman machine is properly initialized

podman info output

podman v4.8.2 installed from pkg

Podman in a container

No

Privileged Or Rootless

None

Upstream Latest Release

Yes

Additional environment details

Additional environment details

Additional information

Additional information like issue happens only occasionally or issue happens with a particular architecture or on a particular setting

[cfergeau]

Probably a good reason to revert the pkg/machine/applehv changes in 33a92aa
If I remember correctly, the external truncate command had the same performance issues in some corner cases.

[rhatdan]

Should we use truncate if it is found and then fall back to slower mechanism?

[gbraad]

Agree. While we can assume these are mostly on development machines, not everyone will have xcode installed.

[cfergeau]

I think the external command had the same issues, not sure a fallback is worth it.

[rhatdan]

I thought the porblem was if the external command does not exist, the fall back is not executed?

[github-actions]

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[Luap99]

I don't see truncate being used in the 5.0 code so I assume this is fixed