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Discussion on: Using podman instead of docker on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL 2)

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Samuel Hart

Thanks for posting this. I used the WSL Fedora Remix .appxbundle from WhiteWaterFoundary (free on Github) github.com/WhitewaterFoundry/Fedora-Remix-for-WSL and got podman to work. It was almost working out of the box, but I needed the modificatiosn to containers.conf to get it working without errors.

For what it's worth, I had the exact same issues using your instructions for creating fedora from the latest fedora container images but I hadn't found this article for podman at the time. I may shift back to that because I'm not sure exactly what else the Fedora Remix does/doesn't include. Although it makes a nice windows menu application for the distro (like you'll get with Ubuntu from the Microsoft Store).

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Jonathan Bowman

Good to hear! Perhaps I should link to this article from that one. Podman does work great without systemd, but needs a bit of customization to do so, as you have discovered as well.