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Podman Desktop for Windows

Podman Desktop for Windows

Owned by Howard Gilbert
Last updated: Nov 04, 2023
1 min read

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 Dashboard tool does not install properly or run correctly if there is a DOCKER_HOST 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 both, set DOCKER_HOST locally in the cmd.exe, bat file, or Powershell script before running docker.exe.

Download the Podman Desktop for Windows installer from https://podman-desktop.io/downloads/windows.

Run the installer.

Open a command prompt and enter “podman machine init” to create the WSL Fedora 38 instance named “podman-machine-default”.

You may use the “podman” command instead of “docker”, or create an alias named docker.exe pointing to podman.exe.

 

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