Note: The instructions for running the Docker Engine in a Hyper-V Linux VM and using the open-source Windows docker.exe require a DOCKER_HOST environment variable pointing to the IP address of the VM. The Podman Desktop for Windows GUI is incompatible with a docker-cli that has been installed with Dashboard tool does not install properly or run correctly if there is a DOCKER_HOST environment Environment variable defined globally at the Windows System or User level. The simple solution is to install either Podman or docker-cli but not both. If you want to run both, the set DOCKER_HOST variable has to be set up locally ( in the command prompt) cmd.exe, bat file, or Powershell script before running docker.exe rather than as a System or User Environment variable that is always active. Interestingly, the podman.exe command does not have this problem and ignores the DOCKER_HOST environment variable.
Download the Podman Desktop for Windows installer from https://podman-desktop.io/downloads/windows.
Install itRun the installer.
Open a command prompt and enter “podman machine init” to create the WSL Fedora 38 instance named “podman-machine-default”.
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