Running a Debian 13 VM on Fedora 42 with Bridged Networking, Podman, and Minikube
Why This Guide Exists You’re on Fedora 42. You want a Debian 13 VM — not through some GUI wizard, but properly, from the command line, with real bridged networking so the VM sits on your LAN like a first-class citizen. You want cloud-init to set up your users and passwords. And then you want to turn that VM into a multi-node Kubernetes cluster with podman and minikube. Every guide I found either stopped at “install the VM” or assumed you already knew the networking parts. This one doesn’t. It holds your hand from dnf install to kubectl get nodes. ...