Users directory is not shared with Hyper-V VM

[RaeesBhatti]

Minikube version (use minikube version): minikube version: v0.8.0

Environment:

• OS: Windows 10 Professional 64bit
• VM Driver: hyperv
• Docker version: Docker version 1.11.1, build 5604cbe

What happened:
The user home directory C:/Users/myuser is not shared with the minikube VM.

What you expected to happen:
The user home directory should have been shared with the VM.

How to reproduce it (as minimally and precisely as possible):
Start minikube with hyperv driver and try to access the user directory from the VM.

Anything else do we need to know:
This is a follow up on #467 and #465

[numbsafari]

Experiencing the same issue when using xhyve driver on Mac.

[r2d4]

@numbsafari you should make sure that you using the latest xhyve driver https://github.com/zchee/docker-machine-driver-xhyve/releases/tag/v0.2.3

The behavior for the xhyve driver was only added in v0.2.3

[numbsafari]

Got it. I think I'm having some other issue related to homebrew cask, which is how I've been installing minikube. For some reason, it's not picking up on the 0.8.0 release.

[dlorenc]

@RaeesBhatti it looks like hyper-v doesn't come with any built in folder host to guest folder sharing. We'll have to implement something for this ourselves.

[RaeesBhatti]

@dlorenc Docker for Windows has an option to share drives with the VM. I think it would be better to ask them for help. Maybe @FrenchBen can share some insight!

[RaeesBhatti]

"The Linux VM used for Docker for Windows uses SMB/CIFS mounting of the host filesystem." excerpt from Docker for Windows docs.

[FrenchBen]

@RaeesBhatti that's exactly right - there's a bit of magic to make work though :P

[RaeesBhatti]

Is there going to be a fix for this in the near future? Or nobody is interested?

[dlorenc]

We'd definitely like to fix this, we just don't have much Windows expertise :(

I'm happy to help out any way I can if someone wants to give this a try.

[aaron-prindle]

We have recently added a minikube mount command that should mount a specified host directory into the minikubeVM. This command works with hyperv and can be run using:
minikube mount /path/to/dir/to/mount

[aaron-prindle]

Closing as the minikube mount command is now the recommended way to mount dirs in minikube and this is not driver specific.