A missing bit of documentation: Podman for *Windows* installs, as a WSL distro, Fedora 36 (Container Image), *not CoreOS*

[martin12333]

Some explanation, and why I believe the title:

podman-4.3.0-setup.exe

...

podman machine init

Downloading VM image: fedora-podman-v36.0.…
Importing operating system into WSL
...

wsl -d podman-machine-default

cat /etc/os-release

NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="36 (Container Image)"
...

Now I have found this:

#12503 Windows WSL implementation of podman machine

Fedora Instead of CoreOS Based

https://docs.podman.io/en/latest/markdown/podman-machine-init.1.html

By default, the VM distribution is Fedora CoreOS. Fedora CoreOS upgrades come out every 14 days and are detected and installed automatically. ... please see the FCOS update docs here and here.

... seems to be written before Podman for Windows started to exist

Username to use for executing commands in remote VM. Default value is core for FCOS and user for Fedora (default on Windows hosts).

... seems updated

Why it is important for me: I will have a question about upgrades.

And, by the way, should I reformat this post as a Github issue?

// related: #11680 Add some documentation on how podman machine is updated · Issue