Is this for WSL1 and/or WSL2: Windows Support -> Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) -> Optional - Only if volumes are required:

[cer]

This page https://www.testcontainers.org/supported_docker_environment/windows/ describes how to configure WSL to support volume mapping.

Inside the WSL shell, modify the /ect/wsl.conf file to mount the Windows drives on / instead of on /mnt/. (Reboot required after this step).

However, it's not clear whether this applies to WSL1 or/and WSL2.

It would be helpful if this was clarified. There's also a typo.

[kiview]

Hey @cer, thanks for the pointer. This section only applied to WSL1. WSL2 should work, as documented under WSL2 backend. Would you like to provide a PR to correct this?

[cer]

One comment/question.

I have Docker for Windows running on WSL2. I have a test that uses DockerComposeContainer. The docker-compose.yml file has a volume mount ./foo:/etc/foo. The source code is in c:\mydir.

Volume mounting works fine when running (via Gradle) testcontainers from a WSL2 shell. The current directory is /mnt/c/mydir. Testcontainers creates a container with /mnt/c/mydir/foo mounted correctly

But when I try the same thing in Power shell the volume mounting doesn't work. The current directory is c:\mydir. Testcontainers creates a container that tries to mount /c/mydir/foo instead of /mnt/c/mydir/foo

[kiview]

Does it work correctly if you use docker-compose directly?

[cer]

Does it work correctly if you use docker-compose directly?

Yes.

[kiview]

Does it work correctly if you configure DockerComposeContainer using withLocal(true)?

[cer]

Unsure. my Windows machine is running Docker Compose 2 so I've been using withLocal(false)

[kiview]

It would help to triage if you can try to use it with withLocal(true), you can switch to Docker Compose 1 in the Docker Desktop settings.

But likely, this exact combination (Testcontainers with DockerComposeContainer file mounting and containerized Docker Compose on Docker Desktop with WSL2 backend from Windows process) does not work.

[cer]

Sorry for the delay. It works with withLocalCompose(true).

I'm guessing the problem is with convertToUnixFilesystemPath(), which is called here: https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-java/blob/66e4be2817f82aa80490c21e8df9e8f8a87fa792/core/src/main/java/org/testcontainers/containers/DockerComposeContainer.java#L623. I believe it converts c:\foo\bar to /c/foo/bar.

[kiview]

You are right, this will be the problem. Especially in DockerComposeContainer, it is very hard to take care of all possible environment permutations. Would you like to look into providing a PR?

[janrieke]

We also just stumbled upon this issue. Has there been some progress on this? Can we do something to help? If there is a snapshot with a fix, we'll be glad to give it a try.