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The docs were outdated mentioning the qemu backed for Mac and I find the way they are written to be a bit confusing. I think it is best to start with that this option is not supported on all the providers except WSL. Fixes: #26780 Signed-off-by: Paul Holzinger <pholzing@redhat.com>
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####> This option file is used in: ####> podman machine init, machine set ####> If file is edited, make sure the changes ####> are applicable to all of those.
--user-mode-networking
This option can only be used for the WSL provider on Windows. On all other
platforms this option is ignored and user mode networking will always be
true there because these providers always depend on gvproxy (our user
mode networking tool for the VMs)
In contrast, The Windows/WSL backend defaults to false, and follows the
standard WSL network setup.
Changing this setting to true on Windows/WSL informs Podman to replace
the WSL networking setup on start of this machine instance with a user-mode
networking distribution. Since WSL shares the same kernel across
distributions, all other running distributions reuses this network.
Likewise, when the last machine instance with a true setting stops, the
original networking setup is restored.
In some VPN configurations the VPN may drop traffic from alternate network interfaces, including VM network devices. By enabling user-mode networking VPNs observe all podman machine traffic as coming from the host, bypassing the problem.