[BUG] Cowork VM 2.1.121 ships Linux ELF ARM64 binary on macOS Apple Silicon - VM cannot start
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What's Wrong?
Platform: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)
Claude desktop version: [check Claude menu → About]
VM SDK version: 2.1.121
BuildID: 6efe4e93908606db428dd3cbdc8adf1ae5978587
file output: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, ARM aarch64 (Linux binary)
Expected: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64
All Cowork scheduled tasks fail. VM cannot start.
Persists after full rm -rf of claude-code-vm directory and relaunch.
What Should Happen?
Platform: macOS Apple Silicon (arm64)
Claude desktop version: [check Claude menu → About]
VM SDK version: 2.1.121
BuildID: 6efe4e93908606db428dd3cbdc8adf1ae5978587
file output: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, ARM aarch64 (Linux binary)
Expected: Mach-O 64-bit executable arm64
All Cowork scheduled tasks fail. VM cannot start.
Persists after full rm -rf of claude-code-vm directory and relaunch.
Error Messages/Logs
RPC error: failed to mount /mnt/.virtiofs-root/shared/Users/sliu/Documents/Claude/Scheduled/optic-prod-daily-health as .scheduled/optic-prod-daily-health: source path does not exist and could not be created: /mnt/.virtiofs-root/shared/Users/sliu/Documents/Claude/Scheduled/optic-prod-daily-health: mkdir /mnt/.virtiofs-root/shared/Users/sliu/Documents: file exists
Steps to Reproduce
Scheduled tasks not running, and returned the above error
Claude Model
None
Is this a regression?
Yes, this worked in a previous version
Last Working Version
_No response_
Claude Code Version
Claude 1.5354.0 (9a9e3d) 2026-04-29T01:14:34.000Z
Platform
Anthropic API
Operating System
macOS
Terminal/Shell
Terminal.app (macOS)
Additional Information
_No response_
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