On Sunday, 31 July 2016 10:11:18 UTC+10, Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote: > On 07/30/2016 12:12 AM, arthur.summers.... wrote: > > I agree with the idea of having an option for a storage VM, but my > > agreement goes a little deeper (and forks a bit). I know that the primary > > goal of Qubes is security, but there are a lot of different use cases for > > it. I use it because I like the compartmentalization provided by VMs. > > Security is almost a secondary for me - I wanted a bare-metal client > > hypervisor. Since XenClient no longer exists and no other offerings are > > well maintained, I landed on Qubes. For my purposes, sharing storage would > > be great, but baking it in DOES defeat the primary goals of the project. > > I'm not necessarily sure that conclusion is foregone. Perhaps it's a > good idea to provide a vchan-backed FUSE file system that allows a VM to > "mount" the subdirectory of another VM. This would require a few things > UX-wise, but it's totally doable otherwise. Of course, the mounting VM > would need to trust the mounted VM, but it'd be quite good otherwise. > > Failing that, a mechanism to provide networking between VMs, such that a > VM can serve another VM via SSH or CIFS, would be okay. Sometimes I > think that the networking model in Qubes is far too restrictive. > > -- > Rudd-O > http://rudd-o.com/
I too am a little unsure of the best practice for accessing my cryfs encrypted google drive (insync) folders. Currently I sync to a secondary drive that I can just mount in whatever VM I need. But there always seems to be that risk of sharing one drive across multiple VMs at different times. Is there a clear advantage (security or convenience) in just setting up a CloudVM and using network sharing to access it from the other VMs, vs just mounting the drive on one VM at a time? Ben -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/12df9ee4-50ff-4ba7-b4a4-c2d629c06038%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
