Running Podman Machine on the Mac M1
TL:DR Patch and compile qemu on the Apple M1 to run podman machine smoothly and without errors. If you are in a hurry you can simply copy and paste your way through the code snippets below but be aware you are making changes to your toolchain and qemu.
Overview Since I use both podman and docker frequently on a mix of x86 and ARM I was very happy when podman 3.