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While looking into podman-container-tools/podman#29233, I noticed that the Windows documentation could be clearer.

This PR adds clarification about how containers.conf works with podman machine, including the correct location for configuration files on Windows, how to verify they're available inside the VM, and what to do on older Podman versions.

Related to podman-container-tools/podman#29233.

Signed-off-by: sahithi cinchalapu <sahithicinchalapu2006@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: sahithi cinchalapu <sahithicinchalapu2006@gmail.com>
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LGTM


%APPDATA%\containers\containers.conf.d\<name>.conf

and **not** `%APPDATA%\Roaming\containers\...` (that path is doubled and is

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Windows those paths apply inside the VM, not on the host.


In addition to containers.conf, drop-in files using the same format from the following directories are also read:

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This does not belong in the “windows” section; or, another way to say it, the new section would be added right in the middle of a path list.

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