From 9d3776a6a3ccf2cde0a93193bded617237c6c03a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ondrej Dockal <odockal@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2026 12:14:58 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] chore: add remote machine preparation script

Signed-off-by: Ondrej Dockal <odockal@redhat.com>
---
 lib/darwin/scripts/remote_machine.sh | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 lib/darwin/scripts/remote_machine.sh

diff --git a/lib/darwin/scripts/remote_machine.sh b/lib/darwin/scripts/remote_machine.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f408cdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/darwin/scripts/remote_machine.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+podmanMachine="podman-machine"
+remoteMachine="remote-machine"
+
+echo "Preparing remote podman machine..."
+
+podman machine init --now $podmanMachine
+
+podman machine ssh pull ghcr.io/podmandesktop-ci/alpine-remote
+
+podman machine ssh image exists podmandesktop-ci/alpine-remote && echo "Image exists... " || { echo "image does not exists"; exit 1; }
+
+# Parse the podman system connection json to get default connection
+
+name=$(podman system connection ls --format json | jq '.[] | select(.Default==true)' | jq -r '.Name')
+uri=$(podman system connection ls --format json | jq '.[] | select(.Default==true)' | jq -r '.URI')
+identity=$(podman system connection ls --format json | jq '.[] | select(.Default==true)' | jq -r '.Identity')
+
+echo "Default connection - Name: $name, URI: $uri, Identity: $identity"
+
+podman system connection rm $podmanMachine
+podman system connection rm $podmanMachine-root
+
+# remove default connections and other podman related file
+if [[ "$(uname)" = *Linux* ]]; then 
+    rm -rf /run/user/1000/podman/*$podmanMachine*
+fi
+
+# Do not remove ~/.local/share/containers/podman as there are keys to the machine
+
+# remove other configuration files from USERPROFILE\.config\containers
+rm -rf ~/.config/containers/podman/machine/qemu/$podmanMachine*
+
+# create a connection from previous information
+podman system connection add $remoteMachine --identity $identity $uri
+
+# check connection
+podman system connection ls --format json
+
+# run the remote e2e tests...