Desktop Not Seeing Running VM on MacOS

[azizabah]

So I have been using podman CLI for a while to replace docker and was hoping to utilize the desktop to simplify things.

Running this command in terminal (MacOS Intel):
$ podman machine list
NAME VM TYPE CREATED LAST UP CPUS MEMORY DISK SIZE
podman-machine-default* qemu 7 weeks ago Currently running 1 2.147GB 53.69GB

But inside the UI, it doesn't think a container engine is running? Is there something else that needs to happen for it to see it. Apologies if this discussion isn't the right place.

[benoitf]

@azizabah it's the right place.

Could you tell me the version of podman that you're using ?

using podman version command

[azizabah]

$ podman version
Client:
Version: 3.4.4
API Version: 3.4.4
Go Version: go1.17.3
Built: Wed Dec 8 13:41:11 2021
OS/Arch: darwin/amd64

Server:
Version: 4.1.0
API Version: 4.1.0
Go Version: go1.18
Built: Fri May 6 12:15:54 2022
OS/Arch: linux/amd64

[benoitf]

@azizabah ok so here the issue is that podman 3.x is not providing a socket on the host.
So Podman Desktop is not able to connect through this socket.

Could you please update the client version to be 4.1.0 as well ? (it seems your server is up-to-date but not the client side)

v4.0 is required on macOS or on Windows

[azizabah]

That did it. Thanks @benoitf !

[benoitf]

we want to add some preflight checks to detect such "bad behaviour" of Podman Desktop and provide a better guidance/feedback to users.