About "podman machine": > Podman also runs on Mac and Windows, where it provides a native podman CLI and embeds a guest Linux system to launch your containers.

About "podman machine": > Podman also runs on Mac and Windows, where it provides a native podman CLI and embeds a guest Linux system to launch your containers. This guest is referred to as a Podman machine and is managed with the `podman machine` command. > ..On Mac, each Podman machine is backed by a QEMU based virtual machine. > ..On Windows, each Podman machine is backed by a virtualized Windows System for Linux (WSLv2) distribution. https://podman.io/getting-started/installation.html https://podman.io/getting-started/installation.html