VS Code remote container on macOS fails to mount workspace

[jonathonf]

I've spent a few days trying to get VS Code's remote containers working with podman on an M1 Mac running Monterey.

The VM machine builds and starts fine (podman machine init && podman machine start), and the initial VS Code container builds fine (including all custom setup with the Dockerfile), but when it comes to mounting the workspace on the container it fails with Error: statfs /Users/jonathon/...: no such file or directory .

I have tried adding -v /Users:/Users to podman machine init without any obvious effect, and have been told on IRC that there is a default -v $HOME:$HOME anyway.

I have a feeling this is macOS preventing access to the files, but I also tried giving full disk access to /opt/homebrew/bin/podman and that didn't seem to make any difference.

Any pointers or things to try would be gratefully received.

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Versions:
podman: 4.2.1 (from brew)
code: 1.71.2
ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers: v0.251.0 and v0.252.0

[jonathonf]

This was caused by my having set PubKeyAuthentication=no as a default for unspecified/unconfigured SSH connections. 😓