hi.
currently i am configuring salt to create and configure all my vms.
my target is to have only a minimal set of vms i need to backup (vault,
config, data, custom systemd based services for my vms) and a set of
salt files to create my whole setup.
creating vms and installing software works.
but for some vms i need additional config data (ssh-keys, openvpn-config
file, etc).
I want to store this data in the config vm.
now i need to get the config data for each vm from my config-vm.
i have multiple ideas, but i am not satisfied with any:
1) run `qvm-copy-to-vm` in config-vm + run some copy commands in the
target-vm
2) get the file to dom0 via `qvm-run --pass-io "cat ...." >
file_in_dom_0` + transfer the file to the targetvm
3) use managed file from salt
why i don't like the solutions:
1) needs user interaction to allow the transaction or i need to allow
all file transfers from my config-vm.
i like neither of these options.
additionally i need to to issue two commands.
2) i don't like the part about transferring anything to dom0.
also it would be difficult to handle directories.
3) i would transfer the files to dom0 (i don't want to do this)
I am currently searching for a nice way to solve all of this.
I have an idea but it would require some new functionality (at leas i
think so).
in my config-vm i have multiple config folders for each target property
(e.g. autoshutdown, QubesOutgoing for my own services).
each folder contains files to copy to /rw)
in dom0 i would run something like this
`qvm-inter-vm-copy config-vm:~/autoshutdown/* some-template:/rw/`
this command would copy all files/directories from ~/autoshutdown/ in
config-vm to /rw in some-template.
the command qvm-inter-vm-copy would only be available in dom0, so it
would not need additional user interaction.
what do you think about adding such a `qvm-inter-vm-copy`-command to
dom0? (the functionality (intervm copy) should mostly already be there).
Or is there some other/better way?
-john
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