[azure devops and Github runners] AVPIdentity: AppleVirtualPlatformHostKey.mm:234: Assert: platformExpert, value: 0

Description When starting the iOS simulators on macOS-15 intel image, the following assertion happens: The same issue not showing for macOS 15-arm64 image. Here is the issue details: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/issues/10925 raised by multiple users.

AVPIdentity: AppleVirtualPlatformHostKey.mm:234: Assert: platformExpert, value: 0 AVPIdentity: AppleVirtualPlatformHostKey.mm:234: Failed to get AppleVirtualPlatformARMPE service.

The Simulators worked fine the day before the above issue was posted. What changed? Did something update?

Just to clarify a bit -- When running through Virtualization on Intel, it looks as if any xcrun simctl list devices --json or other simulator related command is throwing the AVPIdentity errors. This, obviously, breaks json parsing and any tool that parses it. We see the simctl errors in the Console logs too, but are unsure where they're coming from or what could be missing here to cause it. We're looking for some guidance from Apple about the issue either: how to hide the log messages, or how to prevent them from happening at all by modifying the OS in the VM.

Also, this does not seem to happen on 14.x VMs, so this was something introduced in 15.x.

Has anyone filed a bug about this already? If so, what’s the bug number? If not, please do and then post the bug number.

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Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple
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Bug number: FB16084148

[azure devops and Github runners] AVPIdentity: AppleVirtualPlatformHostKey.mm:234: Assert: platformExpert, value: 0
 
 
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