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Update installation instructions to use podman in a WSL machine

Open djohn156 opened this issue 4 years ago • 5 comments

This has been previously discussed in a podman issue.

On the (Podman Installation)[https://podman.io/getting-started/installation] page, for installing podman in a WSL machine, the article (How to run Podman on Windows with WSL2)[https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-windows-wsl2]. Though the article is well written and a good starting point, some information is outdated. Suggestion is to add comments on the installation page:

  • [ ] The config file does now reside on /usr/share/containers/containers.conf
  • [ ] optional, since this is not a Podman issue but still helpful Default for WSL machines might be WSL1, not WSL2 and emphasize, that users should check this and change it as necessary.
  • [ ] optional, since this is not a Podman issue but still helpful Since most users may run instances serving some process on a port in the Linux machine, ports are not automatically accessible via the localhost of the Windows machine.

djohn156 avatar Jul 21 '21 06:07 djohn156

@baude PTAL, could you get the original updated?

rhatdan avatar Jul 21 '21 14:07 rhatdan

You might also want to reference the new article: https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-windows-wsl

afbjorklund avatar Sep 19 '21 07:09 afbjorklund

@baude FYI, can you update your post or should we add a new and improved one?

TomSweeneyRedHat avatar Sep 20 '21 21:09 TomSweeneyRedHat

Both of these articles are probably outdated now with the release of Podman 4.0.

computator avatar Mar 04 '22 08:03 computator

ping @baude

TomSweeneyRedHat avatar Mar 04 '22 15:03 TomSweeneyRedHat