Describe the bug
It is impossible to create a new multipass VM.

To Reproduce
How, and what happened?

1. start with an empty list of VM's (verify that /var/db/dhcpd_leases is empty)
2. in the Multipass UI select catalog and launch Ubuntu 25.10
3. after the download of the image you see the starting message but after some time you will get "timed out for waiting for response"
4. `multipass list shows
   Name State IPv4 Image
   supple-alien Unknown -- Ubuntu 25.10
5. /var/db/dhcpd_leases is filled with
   {
   name=supple-alien
   ip_address=192.168.2.2
   hw_address=1,52:54:0:12:aa:4b
   identifier=1,52:54:0:12:aa:4b
   lease=0x68d18bea
   }

Expected behavior
What did you expect to happen?

Logs
[2025-09-22T18:48:12.615] [debug] [qemu-img] [20486] started: qemu-img info --output=json /var/root/Library/Caches/multipassd/qemu/vault/images/questing-20250903/questing-server-cloudimg-arm64.img
[2025-09-22T18:48:12.702] [debug] [qemu-img] [20487] started: qemu-img amend -o compat=1.1 /var/root/Library/Caches/multipassd/qemu/vault/images/questing-20250903/questing-server-cloudimg-arm64.img
[2025-09-22T18:48:12.770] [debug] [qemu-img] [20488] started: qemu-img info /var/root/Library/Caches/multipassd/qemu/vault/images/questing-20250903/questing-server-cloudimg-arm64.img
[2025-09-22T18:48:12.838] [debug] [qemu-img] [20489] started: qemu-img resize /var/root/Library/Application Support/multipassd/qemu/vault/instances/supple-alien/questing-server-cloudimg-arm64.img 5368709120
[2025-09-22T18:48:12.907] [debug] [qemu-img] [20490] started: qemu-img snapshot -l /var/root/Library/Application Support/multipassd/qemu/vault/instances/supple-alien/questing-server-cloudimg-arm64.img
[2025-09-22T18:48:12.915] [debug] [supple-alien] process working dir ''
[2025-09-22T18:48:12.915] [info] [supple-alien] process program 'qemu-system-aarch64'
[2025-09-22T18:48:12.915] [info] [supple-alien] process arguments '-machine, virt,gic-version=3, -accel, hvf, -drive, file=/Library/Application Support/com.canonical.multipass/bin/../Resources/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on, -cpu, host, -nic, vmnet-shared,model=virtio-net-pci,mac=52:54:00:12:aa:4b, -device, virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0, -drive, file=/var/root/Library/Application Support/multipassd/qemu/vault/instances/supple-alien/questing-server-cloudimg-arm64.img,if=none,format=qcow2,discard=unmap,id=hda, -device, scsi-hd,drive=hda,bus=scsi0.0, -smp, 1, -m, 1024M, -qmp, stdio, -chardev, null,id=char0, -serial, chardev:char0, -nographic, -cdrom, /var/root/Library/Application Support/multipassd/qemu/vault/instances/supple-alien/cloud-init-config.iso'
[2025-09-22T18:48:12.977] [debug] [qemu-system-aarch64] [20491] started: qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt,gic-version=3 -machine virt -nographic -dump-vmstate /private/var/folders/zz/zyxvpxvq6csfxvn_n0000000000000/T/multipassd.lmmOsj
[2025-09-22T18:48:13.016] [info] [supple-alien] process state changed to Starting
[2025-09-22T18:48:13.078] [info] [supple-alien] process state changed to Running
[2025-09-22T18:48:13.078] [debug] [qemu-system-aarch64] [20492] started: qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt,gic-version=3 -accel hvf -drive file=/Library/Application Support/com.canonical.multipass/bin/../Resources/qemu/edk2-aarch64-code.fd,if=pflash,format=raw,readonly=on -cpu host -nic vmnet-shared,model=virtio-net-pci,mac=52:54:00:12:aa:4b -device virtio-scsi-pci,id=scsi0 -drive file=/var/root/Library/Application Support/multipassd/qemu/vault/instances/supple-alien/questing-server-cloudimg-arm64.img,if=none,format=qcow2,discard=unmap,id=hda -device scsi-hd,drive=hda,bus=scsi0.0 -smp 1 -m 1024M -qmp stdio -chardev null,id=char0 -serial chardev:char0 -nographic -cdrom /var/root/Library/Application Support/multipassd/qemu/vault/instances/supple-alien/cloud-init-config.iso
[2025-09-22T18:48:13.078] [info] [supple-alien] process started
[2025-09-22T18:48:13.079] [debug] [supple-alien] Waiting for SSH to be up
[2025-09-22T18:48:13.145] [debug] [arp] [20493] started: arp -an
[2025-09-22T18:48:13.400] [debug] [supple-alien] QMP: {"QMP": {"version": {"qemu": {"micro": 1, "minor": 2, "major": 8}, "package": ""}, "capabilities": ["oob"]}}^M

[2025-09-22T18:48:13.436] [debug] [supple-alien] QMP: {"return": {}}^M

[2025-09-22T18:48:15.348] [debug] [arp] [20499] started: arp -an
[2025-09-22T18:48:17.499] [debug] [arp] [20500] started: arp -an
[2025-09-22T18:48:19.634] [debug] [arp] [20501] started: arp -an
[2025-09-22T18:48:21.795] [debug] [arp] [20502] started: arp -an
[2025-09-22T18:48:23.914] [debug] [arp] [20505] started: arp -an
[2025-09-22T18:48:26.007] [debug] [arp] [20506] started: arp -an
[2025-09-22T18:48:26.837] [debug] [supple-alien] QMP: {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1758559706, "microseconds": 837700}, "event": "NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED", "data": {"path": "/machine/unattached/device[6]/virtio-backend"}}^M

[2025-09-22T18:48:28.100] [debug] [arp] [20508] started: arp -an
[2025-09-22T18:48:43.982] [debug] [supple-alien] QMP: {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1758559723, "microseconds": 982401}, "event": "RTC_CHANGE", "data": {"offset": 1, "qom-path": "/machine/unattached/device[4]"}}^M

[2025-09-22T18:56:49.283] [debug] [async task] fetch manifest periodically
[2025-09-22T18:56:49.289] [info] [VMImageHost] Did not find any supported products in "appliance"
[2025-09-22T19:01:04.013] [debug] [supple-alien] QMP: {"timestamp": {"seconds": 1758560464, "microseconds": 13006}, "event": "RTC_CHANGE", "data": {"offset": 0, "qom-path": "/machine/unattached/device[4]"}}^M

[2025-09-22T19:08:31.204] [debug] [daemon] Returning setting local.driver=qemu

Additional info

• OS: [macOS 26]
• CPU architecture or model: [Apple M1]
• multipass version 1.16.1+mac
• multipass info
  Name: supple-alien
  State: Unknown
  Snapshots: 0
  IPv4: --
  Release: --
  Image hash: cd90a6ee0dc9 (Ubuntu 25.10)
  CPU(s): --
  Load: --
  Disk usage: --
  Memory usage: --
  Mounts: --
• multipass get local.driver qemu

Additional context
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EDIT

To anyone else with this issue: consider reporting this bug to Apple or piling up on existing bug reports.