Podman mount host volume return 'Error: statfs: no such file or directory' in Mac OS

Question

Recently switched from Docker Desktop to Podman, everything work smoothly except when I want to mount host volume into container. e.g.

➜  ~ podman run --name nginx -v ~/bin/nginx/nginx.conf:/etc/nginx/nginx.conf:ro -d -p 8080:80 nginx
Error: statfs /Users/rb/bin/nginx/nginx.conf: no such file or directory

➜  ~  ls -lt ~/bin/nginx/nginx.conf                                                                 
-rw-r--r--  1 rb staff  490 Apr 23 14:31 /Users/rb/bin/nginx/nginx.conf

The host file ~/bin/nginx/nginx.conf do exist, so what's the problem here?

Answer 1

Try the following:

1. Restart of VM:

   podman machine stop; podman machine start
   

   As @rafagarci mentioned in comments, sometimes new start failed and you should run these commands again a few times.

   Then mount (-v) works fine.

2. If restart doesn't help then try to recreate your podman machine:

   podman machine stop
   podman machine rm
   podman machine init # you may specify parameters for your VM
   podman machine start
   

   In documentation you may find parameters for podman machine init command.