How to make podman use qemu-system-* instead of qemu-user

[RoadRoller01]

I am on linux and I want to get full system emulation on the container to get all syscalls, But I have tried a lot to configure it to use qemu-system-* but no luck, although there is mention to qemu-system-* in the source code, but you can not use it, I think thats only for macos idk.

Anyways is that possible? Note: I have tried some runtimes but they are buggy.. Doesn't work(:

[nalind]

Full system emulation means running a VM, and I don't think podman machine knows how to start a VM for a non-native architecture. In the past, I've used virt-manager to set up a VM, enabled the podman service in the VM, and added the VM as a remote for podman system connection on the host. Emulating hardware and running the kernel under emulation adds to the performance cost, but aside from that it worked pretty well.