On Mon, Sep 03, 2018 at 03:03:25PM -0700, Guy Frank wrote: > On Friday, August 31, 2018 at 6:31:58 PM UTC-4, Chris Laprise wrote: > > On 08/31/2018 01:40 PM, Guy Frank wrote: > > > On Friday, August 31, 2018 at 12:17:54 PM UTC-5, js...@bitmessage.ch > > > wrote: > > >> Guy Frank: > > >>> One question I had is whether there is any way to set an unencrypted > > >>> (or encrypted?) external HD as the /home folder for a VM? > > >>> > > >>> Guy > > >> > > >> Hi Guy, > > >> > > >> I'm not sure about setting it as /home but i think it's possible. But > > >> it's easy to attach an external HD to a vm and save your files to it. > > >> > > >> https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/ > > >> > > >> Also it's pretty easy to encrypt it with luks for security, it just > > >> takes a little longer each time. > > >> > > >> -- > > >> Jackie > > > > > > Thanks Jackie for your reply! > > > > > > I remember it being fairly easy to attach USB devices w/ the right clicks > > > here & there. So, yes, I'd have access to the files on my external HD. > > > > > > But it would be more convenient if I could get Qubes to mount the home > > > folder on the HD as the Home folder for the given virtual machine. I > > > imagine that's trickier and was wondering if there's a way to do it? > > > > > > Maybe use a script to mount the attached USB drive home (/home/guyuser) > > > over the Qubes home directory? But then, if that's possible, some of the > > > setup in the Qubes home directory might get missed. > > > > > > > The key to using it as /home would be to setup a new storage pool to > > hold that VM. Unfortunately the docs could use a rewrite: > > > > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/storage-pools/ > > > > The relevant commands are 'qvm-pool --add' and 'qvm-create --pool'. > > > > -- > > > > Chris Laprise, tas...@posteo.net > > https://github.com/tasket > > https://twitter.com/ttaskett > > PGP: BEE2 20C5 356E 764A 73EB 4AB3 1DC4 D106 F07F 1886 > > Hi Chris: Thanks! This looks like a step in the right direction, but I have > some questions. I'm guessing the commands will tell Qubes to treat my > external HD as a potential place to store a VM. But that seems like it > wouldn't take the existing home directory on the external HD as the VM home > directory but instead store a VM file containing the VM's home directory > structure on the disk. That file would, I imagine, be difficult to access on > the Kubuntu I have running on my home desktop and wouldn't contain the files > currently on my external hard disk, which mirror my Kubuntu files. > > Is that the case and is there any fix? Am beginning to think the only way to > work this is to simply attach my external HD as a USB device and give up on > trying to make the files my home directory. > > Guy >
If it were not USB it would be straightforward. It occurs to me that you may be able to change the configuration, (see previous thread on assigning SATA devices) to attach the USB device on boot, and have fstab configured to mount the newly exposed device in the qube as /home or a directory in /home. I haven't tried this but I'm assuming it would be possible, and would fit your needs. I'll have a quick poke at this in the morning, and see if there's any mileage in the thought. -- 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/20180904123609.kjrimynrtlh5rdmh%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
