Last month, we improved the support of Podman for Dev Containers on Windows. Dev Containers is a popular specification for containerized developments that is becoming a standard. In this blog post, we review the concept of “Feature” in Dev Containers and how Podman currently supports it on different OSes.
The Podman upstream team has just released Podman 5.2. To quote Matt Heon’s email: Podman v5.2.0 has just been released. This release is the first one with full support for libkrun, allowing GPUs to be mounted into our VMs on MacOS to accelerate AI workloads, which I know has been much anticipated. Otherwise, this has…
Podman machine’s primary virtualization driver is referred to as a “provider”. In April 2024, I added support for the krun as a provider for MacOS. We made little mention of the addition, because we also needed to tidy up items like regression testing, testing environments, and details around support. But as we near completion of…
The Podman team introduced the support for Hyper-V with Podman version 4.8. With version 5.1, we updated the Podman Windows installer to allow Hyper-V configuration at installation time. This blog post will explain what this means and how to use it.
In an earlier post, I talked about work that I was starting for Podman machine and its use of Microsoft HyperV. I’m pleased that my first pull request for that enablement was recently merged into Podman. At this point, it is really just about the basics of machine like: creation, removal, start, and stop. >…
Podman runs Linux containers, which depend on a Linux operating system. This means that if a user is on a Mac or Windows, Podman needs to run inside a VM. Most of the time, a standard install of Podman machine just works out of the box. However, when something goes wrong, the complexity of the…
I have been working on adding HyperV as a supported virtualization option for Podman machine. Within the next couple of weeks, I will be looking for folks to test my progress and shake out as many bugs as possible before the code is officially released. If you are familiar with Podman machine and have experience…
Developers are always asking us about how to customize Podman machine to add or subtract content. Up until recently, the answer has always been to use the cosa tooling to create the operating system and a qcow image. The process is not particularly difficult but it does help to have fast disk I/O […]
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