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.
Personally, I'm a huge fan of Turnkey Linux (http://turnkeylinux.org), and I use their stuff regularly to stand up infrastructure components or for testing. They have a fileserver VM, and it's pretty beautiful. Actually, all of their stuff is pretty beautiful. However, unless I missed something, I don't see an easy way to import an OVA/VMDK into Qubes. If that existed, I'd be happier than a dog with eight legs (yes, I said that). This would solve a lot of use cases, simplify the creation of third party HVMs, and still maintain the goals of the project. Thoughts? -- 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/f9e16762-09b3-4f05-82a8-d65fdedbe2f1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
