fixed unwanted spinning up of mount deamon when using KIC drivers, and added same host mounted volumes logic for the Podman driver

cmd/minikube/cmd/start_flags.go

@@ -323,8 +323,8 @@ func generateClusterConfig(cmd *cobra.Command, existing *config.ClusterConfig, k
 			},
 		}
 		cc.VerifyComponents = interpretWaitFlag(*cmd)
-		if viper.GetBool(createMount) {
+		if viper.GetBool(createMount) && driver.IsKIC(drvName) {
-			cc.VolumeMounts = []string{viper.GetString(mountString)}
+			cc.ContainerVolumeMounts = []string{viper.GetString(mountString)}
 		}
 		cnm, err := cni.New(cc)
 		if err != nil {

pkg/minikube/config/types.go

@@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ type ClusterConfig struct {
 	HyperkitVpnKitSock      string   // Only used by the Hyperkit driver
 	HyperkitVSockPorts      []string // Only used by the Hyperkit driver
 	DockerEnv               []string // Each entry is formatted as KEY=VALUE.
-	VolumeMounts            []string
+	ContainerVolumeMounts   []string // Only used by container drivers: Docker, Podman
 	InsecureRegistry        []string
 	RegistryMirror          []string
 	HostOnlyCIDR            string // Only used by the virtualbox driver

pkg/minikube/node/start.go

@@ -133,7 +133,9 @@ func Start(starter Starter, apiServer bool) (*kubeconfig.Settings, error) {
 	}
 
 	var wg sync.WaitGroup
-	go configureMounts(&wg)
+	if !driver.IsKIC(starter.Cfg.Driver) {
+		go configureMounts(&wg)
+	}
 
 	wg.Add(1)
 	go func() {

pkg/minikube/registry/drvs/docker/docker.go

@@ -58,8 +58,8 @@ func init() {
 }
 
 func configure(cc config.ClusterConfig, n config.Node) (interface{}, error) {
-	mounts := make([]oci.Mount, len(cc.VolumeMounts))
+	mounts := make([]oci.Mount, len(cc.ContainerVolumeMounts))
-	for i, spec := range cc.VolumeMounts {
+	for i, spec := range cc.ContainerVolumeMounts {
 		var err error
 		mounts[i], err = oci.ParseMountString(spec)
 		if err != nil {

pkg/minikube/registry/drvs/podman/podman.go

@@ -59,10 +59,20 @@ func init() {
 }
 
 func configure(cc config.ClusterConfig, n config.Node) (interface{}, error) {
+	mounts := make([]oci.Mount, len(cc.ContainerVolumeMounts))
+	for i, spec := range cc.ContainerVolumeMounts {
+		var err error
+		mounts[i], err = oci.ParseMountString(spec)
+		if err != nil {
+			return nil, err
+		}
+	}
+
 	return kic.NewDriver(kic.Config{
 		MachineName:       driver.MachineName(cc, n),
 		StorePath:         localpath.MiniPath(),
 		ImageDigest:       strings.Split(cc.KicBaseImage, "@")[0], // for podman does not support docker images references with both a tag and digest.
+		Mounts:            mounts,
 		CPU:               cc.CPUs,
 		Memory:            cc.Memory,
 		OCIBinary:         oci.Podman,