💭 podman requries qemu-system on ubuntu
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!https://askubuntu.com/questions/1490805/how-do-i-install-qemu-on-ubuntu-23-10

Date: June 12, 2024

How do I install qemu on Ubuntu 23.10?
 I performed a minimal install of Ubuntu 23.10 on a typical desktop PC (x64). I've made no changed to /etc/apt/sources.list from the default. I want to set up some VMs, so I typed:
sudo apt install ...
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podman requires qemu-system on

``` bash
❯ podman machine init
Looking up Podman Machine image at quay.io/podman/machine-os:5.1 to create VM
Extracting compressed file: podman-machine-default-amd64.qcow2: done
Error: exec: "qemu-img": executable file not found in $PATH
```

The fix to this for me was to install qemu-system before podman machine init.

``` bash
sudo apt update

sudo apt install qemu-system
```

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