Anka VMs are in a "failed" status

Scenario

Anka show indicates a "failed" status:

usr@veertus-Mac-mini-5 Anka % sudo anka list
+-------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+---------------------+---------+
| name                                            | uuid                                 | creation_date       | status  |
+-------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+---------------------+---------+
| m1-beta-vanilla (t1)                            | 2fe05256-8898-4e55-a3c5-5a4b0f20e66e | Jan 3 22:13:43 2022 | stopped |
+-------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+---------------------+---------+
| mgmtManaged-m1-beta-vanilla-1643843806808744000 | 3f8d5a15-2625-404f-b2e0-56df3b8e4c10 | Jan 3 22:13:43 2022 | running |
+-------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+---------------------+---------+
| mgmtManaged-m1-beta-vanilla-1643843808109609000 | 455ebee6-9ec3-4d31-93a2-ba4339ea6ada | Jan 3 22:13:43 2022 | running |
+-------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+---------------------+---------+
| mgmtManaged-m1-beta-vanilla-1643844420128700000 | eeb96388-1787-41e0-9dae-a6e252dab798 | Jan 3 22:13:43 2022 | failed  |
+-------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------+---------------------+---------+

Common Causes & Solutions

  1. No active/logged in (to UI) user, Autologin disabled, and a few other prep steps aren’t performed.
  2. Host or VM resources were exhausted. We recommend checking host vCPUs, RAM, total VMs running on the host, and then how many resources each VM can run and be sure to tweak the VM configs to prevent overuse.
VMs in a failed state cannot be started until you anka stop --force. We also recommend anka registry pull -l {VM Template Name} to reset state.

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