trouble using podman cp on windows

[dancohen21]

I'm using podman in windows with WSL as the podman machine.
the 'podman cp :/path' is not working.

podman cp d:\test.txt :/root/
results in Error: "\test.txt" could not be found on container d: No such file or directory

How can I specify a local file on windows to copy to a container

[rhatdan]

@baude PTAL, I think you were working on this?

@dancohen21 Please give us the output of podman info

[dancohen21]

output of podman info from windows host

host:
arch: amd64
buildahVersion: 1.27.0-dev
cgroupControllers:

• cpuset
• cpu
• cpuacct
• blkio
• memory
• devices
• freezer
• net_cls
• perf_event
• net_prio
• hugetlb
• pids
• rdma
  cgroupManager: cgroupfs
  cgroupVersion: v1
  conmon:
  package: conmon-2.1.1-2.fc35.x86_64
  path: /usr/bin/conmon
  version: 'conmon version 2.1.1, commit: '
  cpuUtilization:
  idlePercent: 99.96
  systemPercent: 0.03
  userPercent: 0.01
  cpus: 4
  distribution:
  distribution: fedora
  variant: container
  version: "35"
  eventLogger: file
  hostname: W103ZBRWP3
  idMappings:
  gidmap: null
  uidmap: null
  kernel: 5.10.102.1-microsoft-standard-WSL2
  linkmode: dynamic
  logDriver: journald
  memFree: 7590330368
  memTotal: 8336093184
  networkBackend: netavark
  ociRuntime:
  name: crun
  package: crun-1.4.5-2.fc35.x86_64
  path: /usr/bin/crun
  version: |-
  crun version 1.4.5
  commit: c381048530aa750495cf502ddb7181f2ded5b400
  spec: 1.0.0
  +SYSTEMD +SELINUX +APPARMOR +CAP +SECCOMP +EBPF +CRIU +YAJL
  os: linux
  remoteSocket:
  exists: true
  path: /run/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: false
  seccompEnabled: true
  seccompProfilePath: /usr/share/containers/seccomp.json
  selinuxEnabled: false
  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: 2147483648
  swapTotal: 2147483648
  uptime: 64h 23m 29.00s (Approximately 2.67 days)
  plugins:
  log:
• k8s-file
• none
• passthrough
• journald
  network:
• bridge
• macvlan
  volume:
• local
  registries:
  search:
• registry.fedoraproject.org
• registry.access.redhat.com
• docker.io
• quay.io
  store:
  configFile: /etc/containers/storage.conf
  containerStore:
  number: 4
  paused: 0
  running: 1
  stopped: 3
  graphDriverName: overlay
  graphOptions:
  overlay.mountopt: nodev,metacopy=on
  graphRoot: /var/lib/containers/storage
  graphRootAllocated: 269490393088
  graphRootUsed: 2112856064
  graphStatus:
  Backing Filesystem: extfs
  Native Overlay Diff: "false"
  Supports d_type: "true"
  Using metacopy: "true"
  imageCopyTmpDir: /var/tmp
  imageStore:
  number: 11
  runRoot: /run/containers/storage
  volumePath: /var/lib/containers/storage/volumes
  version:
  APIVersion: 4.2.0-rc1
  Built: 1657573135
  BuiltTime: Mon Jul 11 14:58:55 2022
  GitCommit: ""
  GoVersion: go1.16.15
  Os: linux
  OsArch: linux/amd64
  Version: 4.2.0-rc1

[baude]

this was fixed recently in #15455 and will be available in the next release.

[dancohen21]

@rhatdan @baude
Just installed 4.3.0 on windows [with WSL]
my laptop has a "c" drive and a "d" drive
I'm trying to copy a file from my "d" drive to my container "se92"

this command works. It runs from the context of the podman-machine-default.
wsl -d podman-machine-default -u user enterns podman cp /mnt/d/2022_Projects/CCCC/1861_symapi_db_20221021.bin se92:/root/

this command is not working. running from the remote podman tools in windows proper context
podman cp 'D:\2022_Projects\CCCC\1272_symapi_db_20221021.bin' se92:/root/test.bin
Error: container "D" does not exist

this command is not working either:
podman cp .\1272_symapi_db_20221021.bin se92:/root/test.bin
error rewriting "D:\2022_Projects\CCCC\1272_symapi_db_20221021.bin" to be relative to "/": expected root directory to be an absolute path, got "/"

nor
podman cp /mnt/d/2022_Projects/CCCC/1272_symapi_db_20221021.bin se92:/root/test.bin

Is there a syntax I'm missing?
the in-context help says:
You can copy from the container's file system to the local machine or the reverse, from the local filesystem to the container.