diff --git a/pkg/cri/opts/container.go b/pkg/cri/opts/container.go
index cb89412da..754088ef2 100644
--- a/pkg/cri/opts/container.go
+++ b/pkg/cri/opts/container.go
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ func WithNewSnapshot(id string, i containerd.Image, opts ...snapshots.Opt) conta
 // WithVolumes copies ownership of volume in rootfs to its corresponding host path.
 // It doesn't update runtime spec.
 // The passed in map is a host path to container path map for all volumes.
-func WithVolumes(volumeMounts map[string]string) containerd.NewContainerOpts {
+func WithVolumes(volumeMounts map[string]string, targetOS string) containerd.NewContainerOpts {
 	return func(ctx context.Context, client *containerd.Client, c *containers.Container) (err error) {
 		if c.Snapshotter == "" {
 			return errors.New("no snapshotter set for container")
@@ -97,21 +97,23 @@ func WithVolumes(volumeMounts map[string]string) containerd.NewContainerOpts {
 		}()
 
 		for host, volume := range volumeMounts {
-			// Windows allows volume mounts in subfolders under C: and as any other drive letter like D:, E:, etc.
-			// An image may contain files inside a folder defined as a VOLUME in a Dockerfile. On Windows, images
-			// can only contain pre-existing files for volumes situated on the root filesystem, which is C:.
-			// For any other volumes, we need to skip attempting to copy existing contents.
-			//
-			// C:\some\volume --> \some\volume
-			// D:\some\volume --> skip
-			if len(volume) >= 2 && string(volume[1]) == ":" {
-				// Perform a case insensitive comparison to "C", and skip non-C mounted volumes.
-				if !strings.EqualFold(string(volume[0]), "c") {
-					continue
+			if targetOS == "windows" {
+				// Windows allows volume mounts in subfolders under C: and as any other drive letter like D:, E:, etc.
+				// An image may contain files inside a folder defined as a VOLUME in a Dockerfile. On Windows, images
+				// can only contain pre-existing files for volumes situated on the root filesystem, which is C:.
+				// For any other volumes, we need to skip attempting to copy existing contents.
+				//
+				// C:\some\volume --> \some\volume
+				// D:\some\volume --> skip
+				if len(volume) >= 2 && string(volume[1]) == ":" {
+					// Perform a case insensitive comparison to "C", and skip non-C mounted volumes.
+					if !strings.EqualFold(string(volume[0]), "c") {
+						continue
+					}
+					// This is a volume mounted somewhere under C:\. We strip the drive letter and allow fs.RootPath()
+					// to append the remaining path to the rootfs path as seen by the host OS.
+					volume = volume[2:]
 				}
-				// This is a volume mounted somewhere under C:\. We strip the drive letter and allow fs.RootPath()
-				// to append the remaining path to the rootfs path as seen by the host OS.
-				volume = volume[2:]
 			}
 			src, err := fs.RootPath(root, volume)
 			if err != nil {
diff --git a/pkg/cri/sbserver/container_create.go b/pkg/cri/sbserver/container_create.go
index f274e671f..435792ca4 100644
--- a/pkg/cri/sbserver/container_create.go
+++ b/pkg/cri/sbserver/container_create.go
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ func (c *criService) CreateContainer(ctx context.Context, r *runtime.CreateConta
 		for _, v := range volumeMounts {
 			mountMap[filepath.Clean(v.HostPath)] = v.ContainerPath
 		}
-		opts = append(opts, customopts.WithVolumes(mountMap))
+		opts = append(opts, customopts.WithVolumes(mountMap, image.ImageSpec.OS))
 	}
 	meta.ImageRef = image.ID
 	meta.StopSignal = image.ImageSpec.Config.StopSignal
diff --git a/pkg/cri/server/container_create.go b/pkg/cri/server/container_create.go
index 9483778d1..06b7fa948 100644
--- a/pkg/cri/server/container_create.go
+++ b/pkg/cri/server/container_create.go
@@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ func (c *criService) CreateContainer(ctx context.Context, r *runtime.CreateConta
 		for _, v := range volumeMounts {
 			mountMap[filepath.Clean(v.HostPath)] = v.ContainerPath
 		}
-		opts = append(opts, customopts.WithVolumes(mountMap))
+		opts = append(opts, customopts.WithVolumes(mountMap, image.ImageSpec.OS))
 	}
 	meta.ImageRef = image.ID
 	meta.StopSignal = image.ImageSpec.Config.StopSignal