Chapter 1. Customize the Podman execution environment

Name

Enter a name for the Podman machine, such as podman-machine-default.

CPU(s)

Select the number of CPUs to allocate to the machine.

Memory

Select the memory size to allocate to the machine.

Disk size

Select the disk size to allocate to the machine.

Image Path

Select an image from your local machine, such as podman-machine.aarch64.applehv.raw.zst.

Image URL or image reference

Enter an image URL or a registry path. You can use an image URL from the Podman releases page or use a valid registry path in the format registry/repo/image:version.

Machine with root privileges

Enable to use the rootful connection by default.

User mode networking (traffic relayed by a user process)

Enable to route the traffic through the network connection from your Windows session. This setting is required to access resources behind your VPN connection.

Provider Type

The setting is visible only to administrators, and its default value is wsl.

macOS ARM64

GPU enabled (LibKrun)

Apple HyperVisor (can be switched when needed)

macOS AMD64

Apple HyperVisor

GPU enabled (LibKrun) (not available)