0.0.18

Highlights

First release based on Podman 5.2.0 codebase, which has removed support for 9p filesystems in QEMU. So, this release with QEMU driver doesn't support volume mounts and they should be explicitly disabled during podman machine init with -v "" arguments. Previous 9p support relied on unstable support in QEMU for Windows, so, it was not recommended in general, thus there is no immediate plan to reintroduce 9p support for Podmam and QEMU.

xz tool has been removed from the install scripts.

Known issues

• Doesn't publish UNIX socket for accessing Podman API, only named pipes will be published

Included in this release

• QEMU 9.0.2 (this one includes 9pfs on Windows hosts patches and UEFI pflash fixes, if this functionality is not needed, then consider using official installer)
• gvproxy same version bundled with Podman
• Podman 5.2.0-dev (555763c2a5b476a5ae91051322cd55d58f1488db) with patches to enable QEMU support on Windows

How to install

1. Download and install QEMU (from this release or official one version 7.2.0 or newer)
2. Download and install Podman from this release (it might be a good idea to uninstall one first if you had it before)
3. Choose a location where you want utilities to reside and open Powershell terminal there, then execute

iex ((New-Object System.Net.WebClient).DownloadString('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arixmkii/qcw/v0.0.18/qcw-utils.ps1'))

4. Follow the instructions in README.

SHA checksums

SHA256

61578d525e5a356d98c4dbec9c613b4cf08a51e609141c592ba2c6219837f82b *./podman-5.2.0-dev-setup.exe
562a784df465d8c8be3e52f4c5a86e93fec68384ae87e23ed7679d1e060a9f66 *./qemu-setup-9.0.2.exe

SHA512

aef2f1469ebfdcca1660624d18f0db981a5b071c3a38bfb117daf6e665eec93d8146c5460869e2653b2faf0bb870d526a1425aae449014efacb5e73de153ecef *./podman-5.2.0-dev-setup.exe
48ce738f00bc96e8b1374f7c8c71ea848b043d089be41eede00bba075b4def32766823a46e58486486b51916280462447209b7cd6b020330299c787e12ee8792 *./qemu-setup-9.0.2.exe