Support native volume mounts in interaction with podman desktop wsl integration

[schlichtanders]

Feature request description

This relates to #8016 in that the solution there to mount the whole user directory within podman machine init -v $USER:$USER does not work on podman desktop with wsl2 setup when using pod man from another wsl (e.g. Ubuntu), as the podman machine is run in a completely different container.

This was already reported at the respective discussion page #13537, but never raised any significant attention so far.

For podman desktop to be a functional alternative to docker desktop for windows, such a native volume mount support is key.

Suggest potential solution

Some form of automatic tunnel setup between the containers would be ideal. If it could happen generically for podman-remote, the better, but if only a windows wsl.exe specific solution is feasible, that would be enough for this issue.

Have you considered any alternatives?

I couldn't find any alternative. Docker Desktop for Windows, of course, but that is licensed and not open source.

Additional context

Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

[arixmkii]

WSL2 should by default mount all your drives into VM. With default config your user home will be located in /mnt/c/Users/<username>

This is output from newly created machine (everything default)

[~]$ ls -l /mnt/c/Users/
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user   18 Apr  1  2024 'All Users' -> /mnt/c/ProgramData
drwxrwxrwx 1 user user 4096 Jan 21 23:32  User
dr-xr-xr-x 1 user user 4096 Nov 12 13:05  Default
lrwxrwxrwx 1 user user   20 Apr  1  2024 'Default User' -> /mnt/c/Users/Default
drwxrwxrwx 1 user user 4096 Nov 12 12:51  Public
-r-xr-xr-x 1 user user  174 Apr  1  2024  desktop.ini

[schlichtanders]

It is about using podman with lokal volume bounds from another wsl (e.g. Ubuntu default wsl)

[arixmkii]

@schlichtanders Thank you for clarification. Yeah, this thing will be tricky a lot more tricky. Let's see if someone has any additional input.