Custom YAML to run Podman inside a Lima VM

lima-podman.yaml

# This example requires Lima v0.7.0 or later.
images:
- location: "https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/35/Cloud/x86_64/images/Fedora-Cloud-Base-35-1.2.x86_64.qcow2"
  arch: "x86_64"
  digest: "sha256:fe84502779b3477284a8d4c86731f642ca10dd3984d2b5eccdf82630a9ca2de6"
- location: "https://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/35/Cloud/aarch64/images/Fedora-Cloud-Base-35-1.2.aarch64.qcow2"
  arch: "aarch64"
  digest: "sha256:c71f2e6ce75b516d565e2c297ea9994c69b946cb3eaa0a4bbea400dbd6f59ae6"
cpus: 4
memory: 6 GiB
disk: 20 GiB
mounts:
- location: "~"
- location: "/tmp/lima"
  writable: true
containerd:
  system: false
  user: false
provision:
- mode: system
  script: |
    #!/bin/bash
    dnf copr enable rhcontainerbot/podman4 -y
    dnf update
    dnf install -y podman crun
- mode: user
  script: |
    #!/bin/bash
    set -eux -o pipefail
    systemctl --user enable --now podman.socket
probes:
- script: |
    #!/bin/bash
    set -eux -o pipefail
    if ! timeout 30s bash -c "until command -v podman >/dev/null 2>&1; do sleep 3; done"; then
      echo >&2 "podman is not installed yet"
      exit 1
    fi
  hint: See "/var/log/cloud-init-output.log". in the guest
portForwards:
- guestSocket: "/run/user/{{.UID}}/podman/podman.sock"
  hostSocket: "{{.Dir}}/sock/podman.sock"
message: |
  To run `podman` on the host (assumes podman-remote is installed), run the following commands:
  ------
  export CONTAINER_HOST=$(limactl list podman --format 'unix://{{.Dir}}/sock/podman.sock')
  podman system connection add lima "unix://{{.Dir}}/sock/podman.sock"
  podman system connection default lima
  podman{{if eq .HostOS "linux"}} --remote{{end}} run quay.io/podman/hello
  ------