Podman Desktop cannot see podman machine

[pacostas]

Bug description

Podman Desktop cannot see podman machine on windows.

Operating system

windows 11 home

Version

0.0.7

Steps to reproduce

[Updated description] Correct way to reproduce the error on this comment:

• https://github.com/containers/podman-desktop/issues/481#issuecomment-1252089933

[below steps wont reproduce the issue, follow above comment]

1. Install wsl from powershell wsl --install
2. On Powershell with admin rights do:
   • podman machine init
   • podman machine set --rootful
   • podman machine start
3. Start Podman Desktop
4. No containers/images/machines are available

Relevant log output

No response

Additional context

No response

[benoitf]

Could you provide the log that you can grab using View/developper tools/ console ?

[pacostas]

Unfortunately when I toggle developer tools I get below image.

is there any way to totally remove all Podman Desktop files?

[pacostas]

@benoitf [Update on Re-producing the error]

• podman machine init
• podman machine set --rootful
• podman machine start

Open podman desktop and everything works fine. (Below screenshot with the console)

On powershell do:

• podman machine stop

• podman machine rm

• Open podman desktop (Below screenshot with the console)

• Click on podman run, (Below screenshot with the console)

Open powershell and set below command

• podman start
• Open podman desktop no machine/images/ containers are available, (Below screenshot with the console)

[benoitf]

we're no longer seeing this issue, closing as we fixed it