On MacOS, Podman machine init won't mount volumes.

[jdaly-69]

Greetings,
I've been using Docker for a while, but due to bureaucratic issues, I'm investigating changing to Podman. I find myself stuck though. a lot of my containers access folders on the host using -volumes. I cannot get this to work in Podman. some quick web searching suggests that it's necessary to mount the proper volume on the podman machine in order for containers to be able to use it, but that's not working. When I run 'podman machine init -v /usr/local/podman:/mnt/podman, and then start the machine, it never mounts the volume. it says "failed units 1 mnt-podman.mount"
interestingly, the documentation says that podman desktop for mac automagically mounts /Users, /var/folders, and /private to the same locations within the podman machine. That also doesn't work. or at least an ls of /Users (etc) from within the podman machine returns no such file or directory.
I've restarted the machine as suggested, dozens of times. removed and reinitialized as well... tried rootless and rootful. verified that the podman binary and podman-mac-helper have full disk access. No joy.
Anyone have any ideas?
thank you,

[Luap99]

/Users, /var/folders, and /private to the same locations within the podman machine.

They are mounted only by default if you do not specify -v, if you specify your own volume it will unset the default ones.

I have not tired it but my guess is that systemd does not like /mnt as mount point because on Fedora CoreOS that is a symlink to /var/mnt which causes the systemd mount unit to error out.

So I suggest you try -v /usr/local/podman:/var/mnt/podman

[jdaly-69]

that worked.
You're a genius! I've been surfing the web for days trying to figure that one out!

Thank you!