Following QA from here Workaround to use Podman in Dev Containers by Ravi, still unable to use Dev Containers with Podman.
Currently, I use VSCode with Dev Containers & Podman and it works smoothly. Purchase Cursor Pro to leverage code with AI.
Could Ravi or anyone give suggestions?
Steps to reproduce :
First step : Create podman.socket service (done)
❯ systemctl --user status podman.socket
● podman.socket - Podman API Socket
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/podman.socket; enabled; preset: enabled)
Active: active (listening) since Fri 2025-12-26 23:49:46 WIB; 22s ago
Invocation: a17d97266673400eba5ae1687a60fa8f
Triggers: ● podman.service
Docs: man:podman-system-service(1)
Listen: /run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock (Stream)
CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/[email protected]/app.slice/podman.socket
Dec 26 23:49:46 myWork systemd[2037]: Listening on podman.socket - Podman API Socket.
Second step : create environment variable $DOCKER_HOST (done)
❯ echo $DOCKER_HOST
unix:///run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock
Third step : create podman context
❯ podman context ls
Name URI Identity Default ReadWrite
cursor-ai-usage unix:///run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock true true
Run Dev Containers :
2025-12-27 01:33:50.448 [info] No remote exec server found for authority: undefined; using local
2025-12-27 01:33:50.448 [info] Spawned process 3173424: 'podman' 'info'
2025-12-27 01:33:50.448 [info] [docker info]: Running command: podman
2025-12-27 01:33:52.981 [info] [docker info]: Command completed with exit code 0
2025-12-27 01:33:52.981 [info] docker version: host:
arch: amd64
buildahVersion: 1.39.3
cgroupControllers:
- cpu
- memory
- pids
cgroupManager: systemd
cgroupVersion: v2
conmon:
package: conmon_2.1.12-4_amd64
path: /usr/bin/conmon
version: 'conmon version 2.1.12, commit: unknown'
cpuUtilization:
idlePercent: 95.55
systemPercent: 1.09
userPercent: 3.36
cpus: 12
databaseBackend: sqlite
distribution:
codename: trixie
distribution: debian
version: "13"
eventLogger: journald
freeLocks: 2036
hostname: myWork
idMappings:
gidmap:
- container_id: 0
host_id: 1000
size: 1
- container_id: 1
host_id: 100000
size: 65536
uidmap:
- container_id: 0
host_id: 1000
size: 1
- container_id: 1
host_id: 100000
size: 65536
kernel: 6.12.48+deb13-amd64
linkmode: dynamic
logDriver: journald
memFree: 398049280
memTotal: 16404877312
networkBackend: netavark
networkBackendInfo:
backend: netavark
dns:
package: aardvark-dns_1.14.0-3_amd64
path: /usr/lib/podman/aardvark-dns
version: aardvark-dns 1.14.0
package: netavark_1.14.0-2_amd64
path: /usr/lib/podman/netavark
version: netavark 1.14.0
ociRuntime:
name: crun
package: crun_1.21-1_amd64
path: /usr/bin/crun
version: |-
crun version 1.21
commit: 10269840aa07fb7e6b7e1acff6198692d8ff5c88
rundir: /run/user/1000/crun
spec: 1.0.0
+SYSTEMD +SELINUX +APPARMOR +CAP +SECCOMP +EBPF +CRIU +WASM:wasmedge +YAJL
os: linux
pasta:
executable: /usr/bin/pasta
package: passt_0.0~git20250503.587980c-2_amd64
version: ""
remoteSocket:
exists: true
path: /run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock
rootlessNetworkCmd: pasta
security:
apparmorEnabled: false
capabilities: CAP_CHOWN,CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE,CAP_FOWNER,CAP_FSETID,CAP_KILL,CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE,CAP_SETFCAP,CAP_SETGID,CAP_SETPCAP,CAP_SETUID,CAP_SYS_CHROOT
rootless: true
seccompEnabled: true
seccompProfilePath: /usr/share/containers/seccomp.json
selinuxEnabled: false
serviceIsRemote: false
slirp4netns:
executable: /usr/bin/slirp4netns
package: slirp4netns_1.2.1-1.1_amd64
version: |-
slirp4netns version 1.2.1
commit: 09e31e92fa3d2a1d3ca261adaeb012c8d75a8194
libslirp: 4.8.0
SLIRP_CONFIG_VERSION_MAX: 5
libseccomp: 2.6.0
swapFree: 27308032
swapTotal: 8649699328
uptime: 110h 47m 32.00s (Approximately 4.58 days)
variant: ""
plugins:
authorization: null
log:
- k8s-file
- none
- passthrough
- journald
network:
- bridge
- macvlan
- ipvlan
volume:
- local
registries:
search:
- docker.io
- quay.io
store:
configFile: /home/myWork/.config/containers/storage.conf
containerStore:
number: 8
paused: 0
running: 5
stopped: 3
graphDriverName: overlay
graphOptions: {}
graphRoot: /home/myWork/.local/share/containers/storage
graphRootAllocated: 395045117952
graphRootUsed: 222699704320
graphStatus:
Backing Filesystem: extfs
Native Overlay Diff: "true"
Supports d_type: "true"
Supports shifting: "false"
Supports volatile: "true"
Using metacopy: "false"
imageCopyTmpDir: /var/tmp
imageStore:
number: 9
runRoot: /run/user/1000/containers
transientStore: false
volumePath: /home/myWork/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes
version:
APIVersion: 5.4.2
BuildOrigin: Debian
Built: 1753478586
BuiltTime: Sat Jul 26 04:23:06 2025
GitCommit: ""
GoVersion: go1.24.4
Os: linux
OsArch: linux/amd64
Version: 5.4.2
2025-12-27 01:33:52.993 [info] Spawned process 3173546: 'podman' 'container' 'ls' '--all' '--format' 'json'
2025-12-27 01:33:52.993 [info] [docker container]: Running command: podman
2025-12-27 01:33:53.044 [info] [docker container]: Command completed with exit code 0
2025-12-27 01:33:53.044 [error] Failed to list containers. Likely because Docker is not running. SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input
Does this stop you from using Cursor
Yes, cursor is unusable