Podman unable to mount local file into container - docker

Question

I'm planning to move away from Docker to Podman.
I use docker-compose a lot so am planning to switch to podman-compose as well.
However I'm stuck at the simplest of podman examples, I can't seem to mount a volume onto my container? Obviously I'm doing something wrong however I cant figure out what it is.
My source file definitely exists on my (hardware) host (so not the podman machine). but I keep getting the error 'no such file or directory'.
Funny thing is if I manually create the same file locally on the podman machine (podman machine ssh --> touch /tmp/test.txt) it works perfectly fine.
Question is;
should I (manually?) mount all my local files onto the Fedora VM (podman machine) so that in turn this Fedora mount can be used in my actual container? and if so, how do I do this?
The podman run cmd below should work and there is something else I'm doing wrong?
$ ls -al /tmp/test.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 <username> <group> 10 Dec 8 13:33 /tmp/test.txt
$ podman run -it -v /tmp/test.txt:/tmp/test.txt docker.io/library/busybox
Error: statfs /tmp/test.txt: no such file or directory
$ podman run -it -v /tmp/test.txt:/tmp/test.txt:Z docker.io/library/busybox
Error: statfs /tmp/test.txt: no such file or directory
Additional information:
$ podman info --debug
host:
arch: amd64
buildahVersion: 1.23.1
cgroupControllers:
- memory
- pids
cgroupManager: systemd
cgroupVersion: v2
conmon:
package: conmon-2.0.30-2.fc35.x86_64
path: /usr/bin/conmon
version: 'conmon version 2.0.30, commit: '
cpus: 10
distribution:
distribution: fedora
variant: coreos
version: "35"
eventLogger: journald
hostname: localhost.localdomain
idMappings:
gidmap:
- container_id: 0
host_id: 1000
size: 1
- container_id: 1
host_id: 100000
size: 65536
uidmap:
- container_id: 0
host_id: 1000
size: 1
- container_id: 1
host_id: 100000
size: 65536
kernel: 5.15.6-200.fc35.x86_64
linkmode: dynamic
logDriver: journald
memFree: 11733594112
memTotal: 12538863616
ociRuntime:
name: crun
package: crun-1.3-1.fc35.x86_64
path: /usr/bin/crun
version: |-
crun version 1.3
commit: 8e5757a4e68590326dafe8a8b1b4a584b10a1370
spec: 1.0.0
+SYSTEMD +SELINUX +APPARMOR +CAP +SECCOMP +EBPF +CRIU +YAJL
os: linux
remoteSocket:
exists: true
path: /run/user/1000/podman/podman.sock
security:
apparmorEnabled: false
capabilities: CAP_CHOWN,CAP_DAC_OVERRIDE,CAP_FOWNER,CAP_FSETID,CAP_KILL,CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE,CAP_SETFCAP,CAP_SETGID,CAP_SETPCAP,CAP_SETUID,CAP_SYS_CHROOT
rootless: true
seccompEnabled: true
seccompProfilePath: /usr/share/containers/seccomp.json
selinuxEnabled: true
serviceIsRemote: true
slirp4netns:
executable: /usr/bin/slirp4netns
package: slirp4netns-1.1.12-2.fc35.x86_64
version: |-
slirp4netns version 1.1.12
commit: 7a104a101aa3278a2152351a082a6df71f57c9a3
libslirp: 4.6.1
SLIRP_CONFIG_VERSION_MAX: 3
libseccomp: 2.5.3
swapFree: 0
swapTotal: 0
uptime: 7h 9m 29.12s (Approximately 0.29 days)
plugins:
log:
- k8s-file
- none
- journald
network:
- bridge
- macvlan
volume:
- local
registries:
search:
- docker.io
store:
configFile: /var/home/core/.config/containers/storage.conf
containerStore:
number: 4
paused: 0
running: 0
stopped: 4
graphDriverName: overlay
graphOptions: {}
graphRoot: /var/home/core/.local/share/containers/storage
graphStatus:
Backing Filesystem: xfs
Native Overlay Diff: "true"
Supports d_type: "true"
Using metacopy: "false"
imageStore:
number: 8
runRoot: /run/user/1000/containers
volumePath: /var/home/core/.local/share/containers/storage/volumes
version:
APIVersion: 3.4.2
Built: 1636748737
BuiltTime: Fri Nov 12 20:25:37 2021
GitCommit: ""
GoVersion: go1.16.8
OsArch: linux/amd64
Version: 3.4.2

Answer 1

As mentioned by #ErikSjölund there has been an active treat on https://github.com/containers/podman. Apparantely Centos (Podman Machine) does not (yet) support different types of volume creation on the machine.
It's not perse Podman lacking this feature it's waiting for CentOS to support this feature as well.
However, should you want to mount a local directory onto the machine I recommend have a look at https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/8016#issuecomment-995242552. It describes how to do a read-only mount on CoreOS (or break compatibility with local version).
Info:
https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/11454
https://github.com/containers/podman/pull/12584