Windows Server 2019

[Bshukrallah22]

Is this a BUG REPORT or FEATURE REQUEST? (leave only one on its own line)

/kind bug

Description
Hello, I'm trying to run Podman on Windows Server 2019 v 1809, with WSL installed, when I run podman machine init it says I need windows 10 Build 19041 or later. I think this is probably the result of an OS check when I run the command, is there a way to bypass it as I do have WSL on this windows server.

[arixmkii]

According to this

podman/contrib/cirrus/win-installer-main.ps1

Line 48 in d729dd8

# We need AllowOldWin=1 for server 2019 (cirrus image), can be dropped after server 2022

You can try to run from command line podman-setup.exe AllowOldWin=1 to bypass that check in the installer. But I'm not sure if Windows Server 2019 is in the list of officially supported platforms.

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[rhatdan]

@n1hility any further feedback?

[n1hility]

You can try the approach that arixmkii describes with passing AllowOldWin=1. However, 2019 pulls a very old release of WSL, so you may run into issues. 2022 has a more current release of WSL if you have the ability to update.