For Windows

choco.exe install podman
podman machine init
podman machine start

For MacOS

# install brew
/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

# use brew to install podman and qemu
brew install podman qemu

# configure podman to have a linux vm
podman machine init
podman machine start

You may also want to run an x86_64 container in which case you will need the --platform linux/amd64 flag

For Linux

Ubuntu

apt update
apt install podman

Fedora

dnf install podman