How to automatically mount a removable USB device in a Docker Desktop Linux container

Problem: I want to run a Linux container via Docker Desktop, and have a removable device (e.g. USB stick) automatically mount within the container, when it's inserted. Up until now, I've been using WSL2 to run Ubuntu. This allows me to mount a USB drive locally with the following command # sudo mount -t drvfs d: /mnt/d I'm issuing this command via a Python web application. I now want to Dockerise my application, and it has to run in Docker Desktop . Some initial testing running a Linux container in WSL2 has not been successful: # mkdir /mnt/d # mount -t drvfs d: /mnt/d mount: /mnt/d: unknown f

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