Import instructions for WSL2

Image import

PS> wsl --import devsys c:\Users\gbraad\devsys .\devenv-systemd.tar
PS> wsl --set-default devsys
PS> wsl exec echo -e "[user]\ndefault=gbraad\n[boot]\nsystemd=true" > /etc/wsl.conf
PS> wsl --terminate devsys
PS> wsl     #     this will start with systemd enabled

Podman

Fixes

$ sudo dnf install -y podman
$ sudo rpm --restore shadow-utils
$ podman ps
WARN[0002] "/" is not a shared mount, this could cause issues or missing mounts w
CONTAINER ID  IMAGE       COMMAND     CREATED     STATUS      PORTS       NAMES

Access from host

PS> podman system connection add devuser ssh://gbraad@localhost/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock --identity c:\Users\gbraad\.ssh\id_rsa
PS> podman system connection add devroot ssh://root@localhost/run/podman/podman.sock --identity c:\Users\gbraad\.ssh\id_rsa
PS> podman -c devuser ps -a
PS> podman system connection default devuser
PS> podman ps -a

Note: you might want to loginctl enable-linger gbraad for the WSL2 environment.

Share Podman machine

See: share podman.sock on WSL2

PS> podman machine start
PS> podman machine ssh    #   or   wsl -d podman-default-machine
$ touch /mnt/wsl/podman.sock
$ sudo mount --bind /var/run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock /mnt/wsl/podman.sock
$ exit

PS> wsl
$ podman --remote --url unix:///mnt/wsl/podman.sock ps -a