[Bug]: Podman doesn't work with external Volumes

[scott-love]

Version

1.6.0

What platform are you seeing the problem on?

Local PC

What happened

I keep my data (projects) on an external hard drive, which worked fine when using Docker. However, when I use Podman and set my additional directory to /Volumes/data/test, which is the external drive, I get an error. Using Docker I do not get this error. Using /Users/slove/test, which is NOT an external drive, everything works fine.

For the moment I just moved my data but I thought it was worth signalling this potential bug.

I am using:
Apple M1 Max
OS X 14.6.1
Podman v5.2.2

How to reproduce

Inside Settings set Engine options to Podman and an additional directory that is an external hard drive path and try to create a new session.

Relevant log output or screenshot

No response

[Vbitz]

Looking at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69298356/how-to-mount-a-volume-from-a-local-machine-on-podman it seems that Podman mounts your home directory into the machine automatically but that doesn't seem to happen with the external drive.

Based on containers/podman#13948 it seems like you might have to fix it on the command line with something like podman machine init --rootful --now --volume /Volumes/data:/Volumes/data.

[scott-love]

Thanks @Vbitz that helped!
I had to mount both $HOME and the external drive to get it to work:
podman machine init --rootful --now --volume /Volumes/data:/Volumes/data -v $HOME:$HOME

[stebo85]

@iishiishii - can you replicate this bug and add this fix to the GUI app?

[stebo85]

We documented this issue now: https://www.neurodesk.org/docs/getting-started/local/neurodeskapp/#add-a-custom-data-directory