Pass in USB drive with linux filesystem?

[hemna]

How can I pass in a usb drive into the guest OS with lima? I have a microsd formatted for linux and would like to mount it in my lima started vm.

[AkihiroSuda]

This yaml should work:

images:
- location: "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/impish/current/impish-server-cloudimg-amd64.img"
  arch: "x86_64"
- location: "https://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/impish/current/impish-server-cloudimg-arm64.img"
  arch: "aarch64"
mounts:
- location: "~"
- location: "/tmp/lima"
  writable: true
- location: "/Volumes"

[hemna]

Those are for mounts, I want the actual usb device. I can't mount a linux filesystem in macos to pass it as a mount to a linux vm.

[dhirajftcsolar]

M1 MAC does not allow /dev folder mount inside Lima. All tty including USB comes under /dev folder eg. /dev/tty.usbserial-0001 not possible to mount inside VM so that can port or access from inside container. Which is very easy in Linux/Ubuntu or else not in MAC

[jandubois]

You will not be able to "mount" devices into the VM. Lima uses sshfs to mount the directories, but that will only work for regular files.

[dhirajftcsolar]

Yes true. When I tried to mount /dev in my M1 MAC it is simply not allowing me. Thank you, Dhiraj Patra Senior Software Engineer Direct: +91.78932.73022 Email: ***@***.******@***.***> [cid:4fa7a487-5da9-4d08-9c65-8e68a5453c32] ftcsolar.com LinkedIN<https://www.linkedin.com/company/ftcsolar/?viewAsMember=true> The content of this email is confidential and intended for the recipient specified in message only. It is strictly forbidden to share any part of this message with any third party, without a written consent of the sender. If you received this message by mistake, please reply to this message and follow with its deletion, so that we can ensure such a mistake does not occur in the future.

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