How to share files between tart and host?

[onbar]

Hello!
I'm just wondering... is it possible to move files from the host system to the virtual machine? Have anybody an idea?

[fkorotkov]

Hey @onbar,

There are couple of options:

Mount folders on Ventrura

If you have both Ventura host and a Ventura guest, then you can natively mount folder like that:

tart run --dir work:$PWD ventura-base

Then inside the VM you directory will be mounted into /Volumes/My Shared Files/work

Using Cirrus CLI

In case you want to use it for Monterey and have an ability to also script some things you can check Cirrus CLI integration. As mentioned in ReadMe you can install Cirrus CLI and just run cirrus run which will copy over the current working directory into a running VM and will even execute scripts there. You can even retrieve files from the VM.

Using scp

Finally, you can just use scp from command line and use tart ip for convinience:

scp file.txt admin@$(tart ip ventura-base):/Users/admin/Downloads/ 

[onbar]

Wow! That's great. First option works quite nice! Thanks for reply.