How to reuse docker format image storage from podman

[osadalakmal]

How can I reuse the docker format images I already have in /var/lib/docker with podman? I have multiple GBs worth of images that I will rather not download again. How can I get podman images command to look in /var/lib/docker instead of /var/lib/containers? Do I have to go through the docker daemon unix socket? Or can I directly pass a file URI?

[rhatdan]

No, Podman and Docker use different storage mechanisms.
However you can pull the images from Docker directly into Podman
podman pull docker-daemin:IMAGENAME

Podman talks to the Docker daemon, and pulls locally. This will use twice the storage, but you will not need to pull over the network.