Tool downloads large container images without confirmation and appears to hang

[NicolasLM]

Issue Description

Running ramalama implicitly downloads large container images without confirmation and without user feedback.

This is a problem because:

1. The tool appears to hang doing nothing, in my case for hours.
2. It downloaded ~40 GB of data on a metered cellular connection.

Steps to reproduce the issue

• Update to new version
• Run the tool
• See it hang for hours and download large images

$ uv tool upgrade ramalama
Updated ramalama v0.11.3 -> v0.14.0
 - argcomplete==3.6.2
 + argcomplete==3.6.3
 + attrs==25.4.0
 + jinja2==3.1.6
 + jsonschema==4.25.1
 + jsonschema-specifications==2025.9.1
 + markupsafe==3.0.3
 + pyyaml==6.0.3
 - ramalama==0.11.3
 + ramalama==0.14.0
 + referencing==0.37.0
 + rpds-py==0.29.0
Installed 1 executable: ramalama

$ ramalama

[...hangs for hours...]

usage: ramalama [-h] [--debug] [--dryrun] [--engine {podman,docker}] [--nocontainer] [--quiet] [--runtime {llama.cpp,vllm,mlx}] [--store STORE]
                {bench,benchmark,chat,containers,ps,convert,help,info,inspect,list,ls,login,logout,perplexity,pull,push,rag,rm,run,serve,stop,version,daemon} ...
ramalama: requires a subcommand

Describe the results you received

Tool hangs for hours and download large images on a metered connection.

quay.io/ramalama/rocm       0.14      6c9a929361cb   3 weeks ago    9.06GB
quay.io/ramalama/rocm-rag   0.14      35322dffbfc2   3 weeks ago    31.8GB

Describe the results you expected

Tool would ask the user confirmation before downloading large images and provide feedback on the progress of the operation.

ramalama info output

{
    "Accelerator": "hip",
    "Config": {
        "settings": {
            "config_files": [
                "/home/nicolas/.local/share/uv/tools/ramalama/share/ramalama/ramalama.conf"
            ]
        }
    },
    "Engine": {
        "Info": {
            "Architecture": "x86_64",
            "CDISpecDirs": [
                "/etc/cdi",
                "/var/run/cdi"
            ],
            "CPUSet": true,
            "CPUShares": true,
            "CgroupDriver": "systemd",
            "CgroupVersion": "2",
            "ClientInfo": {
                "Arch": "amd64",
                "BuildTime": "Wed Nov  5 19:24:39 2025",
                "Context": "default",
                "Debug": false,
                "DefaultAPIVersion": "1.51",
                "GitCommit": "ecc694264d",
                "GoVersion": "go1.25.3 X:nodwarf5",
                "Os": "linux",
                "Plugins": [
                    {
                        "Name": "buildx",
                        "Path": "/usr/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-buildx",
                        "SchemaVersion": "0.1.0",
                        "ShortDescription": "Docker Buildx",
                        "Vendor": "Docker Inc.",
                        "Version": "0.30.1"
                    },
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                        "Name": "compose",
                        "Path": "/usr/lib/docker/cli-plugins/docker-compose",
                        "SchemaVersion": "0.1.0",
                        "ShortDescription": "Docker Compose",
                        "Vendor": "Docker Inc.",
                        "Version": "2.40.3"
                    }
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                "Version": "28.5.2",
                "Warnings": null
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            "Containerd": {
                "Address": "/run/containerd/containerd.sock",
                "Namespaces": {
                    "Containers": "moby",
                    "Plugins": "plugins.moby"
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            "CpuCfsPeriod": true,
            "CpuCfsQuota": true,
            "Debug": false,
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            "DockerRootDir": "/var/lib/docker",
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                    "extfs"
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                [
                    "Supports d_type",
                    "true"
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                [
                    "Using metacopy",
                    "true"
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                [
                    "Native Overlay Diff",
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                    "userxattr",
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            "InitBinary": "docker-init",
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    "Selinux": false,
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            "qwen2.5vl:7b": "hf://ggml-org/Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct-GGUF",
            "smollm:135m": "hf://HuggingFaceTB/smollm-135M-instruct-v0.2-Q8_0-GGUF",
            "smolvlm": "hf://ggml-org/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-GGUF",
            "smolvlm:256m": "hf://ggml-org/SmolVLM-256M-Instruct-GGUF",
            "smolvlm:2b": "hf://ggml-org/SmolVLM-Instruct-GGUF",
            "smolvlm:500m": "hf://ggml-org/SmolVLM-500M-Instruct-GGUF",
            "stories-be:260k": "hf://taronaeo/tinyllamas-BE/stories260K-be.gguf",
            "tiny": "hf://TheBloke/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0-GGUF",
            "tinyllama": "hf://TheBloke/TinyLlama-1.1B-Chat-v1.0-GGUF"
        }
    },
    "Store": "/home/nicolas/.local/share/ramalama",
    "UseContainer": true,
    "Version": "0.14.0"
}

Upstream Latest Release

Yes

Additional environment details

Linux, docker, ramalama from PyPI installed with uv.

Additional information

No response

[rhatdan]

The feedback should have come from Docker, showing you it downloading the image. I am not sure what ramalama could do, basically ramalama is doing a pull of IMAGE, via Docker or Podman and then relies on these tools to provide feedback.

[NicolasLM]

Showing the output of docker pull would be fine, in this case it showed nothing. I only knew it was pulling an image by looking at htop.

I think that my second point still stands, just like running plain docker would not download data (as opposed to docker pull or docker run), running ramalama (as opposed to ramalama pull or ramalama run) should not download 9 DVDs worth of data without user confirmation.

[olliewalsh]

The container images downloaded are not that large. I expect the values reported here are the on-disk usage which IIUC can be very high with recent versions of docker as the containerd image store keeps both compressed and uncompressed versions.

In general I would not recommend running on a metered connection. LLM models will also need to be pulled, which are often much larger.

[NicolasLM]

I am with you, but one of the main advantages of running models locally is that they should work offline or on a spotty connection. For example working on a train and querying an already downloaded model.

What I am suggesting is making the tool more transparent about the data it wants to download and let the end user figure out whether to move forward with the download or not.

If you are concerned about adding unnecessary friction, I would at least consider prompting the end user when pulling the container runtime that the tool uses, as opposed to models. That is because I don't think anyone would expect the equivalent of ramalama --help to pull multi GB images, which is what happened for me.

[rhatdan]

Ok the ramalama --help issue needs to be fixed.

[olliewalsh]

Ok the ramalama --help issue needs to be fixed.

Agreed, I have this mostly working in a WIP patch