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title: "💭 podman requries qemu-system on ubuntu"
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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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