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Mounting volumes between host (MacOs BigSur) and podman VM – Docker

In my company we switched to Podman due to docker latest change in policies. My colleagues who use Windows with WSL2 switched seamlessly.
Me, who uses MacOs BigSur v.11.6.2 face the following issue:

$ podman machine init -v /Users:/mnt/Users
$ podman machine start

I get the following error

$ Starting machine "podman-machine-default"
$ INFO[0000] waiting for clients...                       
$ INFO[0000] new connection from  to /var/folders/4z/9v__6yld4d7fzmbxm8trl1sh0000gn/T/podman/qemu_podman-machine-default.sock 
$ Waiting for VM ...
$ qemu-system-x86_64: -virtfs local,path=/Users/Dimitrii_Meritsidi/Documents/spbh_exus/git/cdp_airflow_local_environment,mount_tag=vol0,security_model=mapped-xattr: There is no option group 'virtfs'
$ qemu-system-x86_64: -virtfs local,path=/Users/Dimitrii_Meritsidi/Documents/spbh_exus/git/cdp_airflow_local_environment,mount_tag=vol0,security_model=mapped-xattr: virtfs support is disabled

I have read that MacOs Bigsur doesn’t support virtfs. What are the possible solutions here? I have found probable workaround with Vmware Fusion, however it is also on paid subscription.
The reason I need to use this mounting is because we use docker-compose.yml with volumes for launching local airflow.

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  1. 0

    try

    podman machine init --volume /Users --volume /Volumes
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  2. 0

    To allow volume mounts on MacOS, podman machine needs to be created with access to the folder from which you are going to attempt to mount sub-folders, so it would have access to it.

    Is likely that most MacOS users would only want to mount from within their home directory, so machine should be created like below:

    podman machine init --now --cpus=4 --memory=4096 -v $HOME:$HOME

    I wrote a guide for podman on macos at https://github.com/ansible/vscode-ansible/wiki/macos which you might find useful.

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