wsl seems to be detached from GUI

[daixtrose]

• Running Windows 11
• WSL was activated before.
• Installation went smooth
• created an additional podman-machine-default instance:

  PS C:\Users\xxxx> wsl -l -v
    NAME                      STATE           VERSION
  * Ubuntu-22.04              Running         2
    podman-machine-default    Running         2
    Ubuntu                    Stopped         2
  

• Running containers from Podman Desktop GUI works fine
• Running containers from podman-machine-default via command line works fine

Unfortunately neither the wsl instance can see containers started by the GUI nor do containers started in wsl show up in the GUI of Podman Desktop. Any idea?

[daixtrose]

Following advice in https://podman-desktop.io/docs/troubleshooting/troubleshooting-podman reveals

[user@pc-001 ~]$ podman machine list
NAME        VM TYPE     CREATED     LAST UP     CPUS        MEMORY      DISK SIZE
[user@pc-001 ~]$ podman machine stop
Error: podman-machine-default: VM does not exist
[user@pc-001 ~]$ podman machine start
Error: podman-machine-default: VM does not exist
[user@pc-001 ~]$ podman machine rm
Error: podman-machine-default: VM does not exist
[user@pc-001 ~]$ podman machine init
Error: exec: "qemu-system-x86_64": executable file not found in $PATH
[user@pc-001 ~]$ rm -rf ~/.local/share/containers/podman
[user@pc-001 ~]$ rm -rf ~/.config/containers/
[user@pc-001 ~]$  podman machine init
Error: exec: "qemu-system-x86_64": executable file not found in $PATH

Weird enough Podman Desktop shows the machine running:

[daixtrose]

Maybe I misunderstood the docs and podman shoud not be called from the newly created podman-machine-default but from a windows shell: