diff --git a/applecontainer-bridge/Sources/ACBridge/lifecycle.swift b/applecontainer-bridge/Sources/ACBridge/lifecycle.swift
index ec58f10..b4a7f62 100644
--- a/applecontainer-bridge/Sources/ACBridge/lifecycle.swift
+++ b/applecontainer-bridge/Sources/ACBridge/lifecycle.swift
@@ -103,7 +103,11 @@ private func runContainer(spec: RunSpecJSON) async throws {
     var cfg = ContainerConfiguration(id: spec.id, image: img.description, process: process)
     cfg.platform = platform
     cfg.labels = spec.labels ?? [:]
-    cfg.mounts = try (spec.mounts ?? []).map(toFilesystem)
+    var resolvedMounts: [Filesystem] = []
+    for m in spec.mounts ?? [] {
+        resolvedMounts.append(try await toFilesystem(m))
+    }
+    cfg.mounts = resolvedMounts
     cfg.capAdd = spec.capAdd ?? []
     cfg.useInit = spec.initProcess ?? false
     // Enable Rosetta when running an amd64 container on an arm64
@@ -232,7 +236,7 @@ private func imageConfigUser(_ cfg: ImageConfig?) -> ProcessConfiguration.User {
     return .id(uid: 0, gid: 0)
 }
 
-private func toFilesystem(_ m: MountJSON) throws -> Filesystem {
+private func toFilesystem(_ m: MountJSON) async throws -> Filesystem {
     var options: MountOptions = []
     if m.readOnly ?? false {
         options.append("ro")
@@ -246,13 +250,23 @@ private func toFilesystem(_ m: MountJSON) throws -> Filesystem {
     case "tmpfs":
         return .tmpfs(destination: m.target, options: options)
     case "volume":
-        // PR-C scope decision: treat named volumes as virtiofs binds
-        // against the supplied source. Real named-volume support (with
-        // the apiserver pre-creating the volume) is a later PR.
-        guard let src = m.source, !src.isEmpty else {
-            throw BridgeError.invalidArgument("volume mount on this backend currently requires source (named-volume support is deferred)")
+        // Named volume: source carries the volume name. Resolve it
+        // through ClientVolume.inspect to fetch the backing image
+        // path + filesystem format the apiserver expects, then build
+        // a proper Filesystem.volume. Treating the spec as a virtiofs
+        // bind (PR-C's interim shape) makes the apiserver resolve the
+        // name against CWD and fail with errno 2 at bootstrap.
+        guard let name = m.source, !name.isEmpty else {
+            throw BridgeError.invalidArgument("named volume mount requires source (volume name)")
         }
-        return .virtiofs(source: src, destination: m.target, options: options)
+        let vol = try await ClientVolume.inspect(name)
+        return .volume(
+            name: vol.name,
+            format: vol.format,
+            source: vol.source,
+            destination: m.target,
+            options: options
+        )
     default:
         throw BridgeError.invalidArgument("unknown mount type \"\(m.type)\"")
     }
diff --git a/runtime/applecontainer/lifecycle_darwin_arm64_test.go b/runtime/applecontainer/lifecycle_darwin_arm64_test.go
index 3f5d633..990f357 100644
--- a/runtime/applecontainer/lifecycle_darwin_arm64_test.go
+++ b/runtime/applecontainer/lifecycle_darwin_arm64_test.go
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ package applecontainer
 import (
 	"context"
 	"errors"
+	"os"
+	"path/filepath"
 	"strings"
 	"testing"
 	"time"
@@ -176,6 +178,77 @@ func TestRunContainer_BindMount(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+// TestRunContainer_NamedVolume creates a container with a named volume
+// mount and verifies the inspect path reports a MountVolume entry
+// pointing at the volume's backing image (not a virtiofs bind against
+// the launcher CWD). Regression guard for the bug where named volumes
+// fell through to virtiofs and bootstrapped with errno 2.
+func TestRunContainer_NamedVolume(t *testing.T) {
+	rt := runtimeOrSkip(t)
+	ctx := context.Background()
+	const (
+		id     = "ac-namedvol-test"
+		volume = "ac-namedvol-test-vol"
+	)
+	_ = rt.RemoveContainer(ctx, id, runtime.RemoveOptions{Force: true})
+	cliRun(t, "volume", "rm", volume)
+	t.Cleanup(func() {
+		_ = rt.RemoveContainer(ctx, id, runtime.RemoveOptions{Force: true})
+		cliRun(t, "volume", "rm", volume)
+	})
+
+	cliRunStrict(t, "volume", "create", volume)
+	cliRunStrict(t,
+		"run", "--rm", "--name", "ac-alpine-warmup-vol",
+		"docker.io/library/alpine:latest", "/bin/true",
+	)
+
+	_, err := rt.RunContainer(ctx, runtime.RunSpec{
+		Image: "docker.io/library/alpine:latest",
+		Name:  id,
+		Cmd:   []string{"sleep", "60"},
+		Mounts: []runtime.MountSpec{
+			{Type: runtime.MountVolume, Source: volume, Target: "/mnt/data"},
+		},
+	})
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("RunContainer with named volume: %v", err)
+	}
+
+	details, err := rt.InspectContainer(ctx, id)
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("InspectContainer: %v", err)
+	}
+	cwd, err := os.Getwd()
+	if err != nil {
+		t.Fatalf("Getwd: %v", err)
+	}
+	cwd = filepath.Clean(cwd)
+	var found bool
+	for _, m := range details.Mounts {
+		if m.Target == "/mnt/data" && m.Type == string(runtime.MountVolume) {
+			found = true
+			// The apiserver substitutes the volume's on-disk image
+			// path as the canonical source. We don't pin the exact
+			// path (changes across apple/container releases) but it
+			// must not be empty and must not be the launcher CWD —
+			// the original bug had a non-empty source rooted at the
+			// launcher's working directory (apple's virtiofs path
+			// resolution), so empty-source alone wouldn't catch it.
+			if m.Source == "" {
+				t.Errorf("named volume mount has empty source; expected backing path")
+			}
+			if strings.HasPrefix(filepath.Clean(m.Source), cwd+string(filepath.Separator)) {
+				t.Errorf("named volume mount source rooted at launcher CWD: source=%q cwd=%q", m.Source, cwd)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	if !found {
+		t.Errorf("named volume mount not round-tripped; details.Mounts=%+v want target=/mnt/data type=volume",
+			details.Mounts)
+	}
+}
+
 // waitForState polls InspectContainer until the desired state is
 // observed or the timeout fires. Apple's runtime status transitions
 // asynchronously through the apiserver event loop.