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Discussion on: You Probably Don't Need systemd on WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux)

 
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Jonathan Bowman

Good arguments for systemd (especially systemd-based containers), and for genie.

Are you saying that Podman 3 does not work on your systems without systemd?

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PavelSosin-320

Podman 3 supports cgroup2 that closely tayed with systemd and utilized by CRun used in Podman 3 instead of RunC. Thisis the long story. This also scenario that I'm testing (more precisely 3.01). It must enable to use Podman by rootless users. All root scenario work OK. Rootless scenario wors too except one bug in systemd 248 for Fedora 34 that still waiting for correction.
Shortly, I'm very satisfied with genie, all *CLI's, native and well documented Linux configurations and without any scripts that I need to run manually.

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Jonathan Bowman

OK. It sounds like your experience with Podman 3 and cgroup2 support is very different than my own. For me, Podman 3 works flawlessly without systemd.

But it sounds like you have systemd and Podman 3 working for you, so that is good and you are satisfied. If you want to get Podman 3 working without systemd, though, feel free to ask more questions, or consult my article on the subject. Happy to help!