How to mount ~ in a nested Lima instance?

[msgilligan]

If I try to create a Lima instance inside of a a Lima VM (which is using the default home directory name -- /home/user.linux), I get the error message: field 'mounts[0].location' is the reserved internal home directory

If I try do do something like:

- location: "/home"
  mountPoint: "/casa"

I get: field 'mounts[0].location' must not be a system path such as /etc or /usr

I realize I could rebuild the host Lima instance to not use /home/user.linux, but I'd rather not do that.

How can I mount ~ inside the nested instance?

[jandubois]

I think this is a bug in Lima. The validation logic was written before the mountPoint setting allowed you to mount the host directory at a different location inside the guest.

So the reason you were not allowed to mount e.g. /etc (or /home) from the host into the guest was that this would hide the corresponding directory inside the guest, breaking the OS.

But now that we have a way to specify a different mount location, the validation should be against the mountPoint and not the location value.

[jandubois]

I've created issue #3200 for this bug.