This is a follow up post to “Joining libvirt VMs and Podman container in a common network”. Therefore I won’t cover all the basics again and how to configure libvirt because nothing’s changed on that side. Podman 4.0 Podman 4.0 comes with a completely new network stack replacing the previous CNI stack: Netavark Aardvark There are great resources that explain the backgrounds of both tools and I don’t think I could describe it better than the folks implementing it 😄 so if you’re interested have a look at the aforementioned article or the release post.

Disclaimer: I tested all this with Podman 3.x even though Podman 4.0 is already announced but the CNI driver is still available with Podman 4.0 and as soon as I get my hands on 4.0 I’ll give Netavark a try, too! When playing around with containers and VMs one might ask if it’s possible to bring VMs and containers into a common network segment. I see ‘why the hell would I need a VM anyway when already having containers’ or something similar I almost see on your face 😜