On Tuesday, September 4, 2018 at 7:36:12 AM UTC-5, unman wrote: > 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, [email protected] > > > > 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, [email protected] > > > 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.
Thanks Chris & Unman! I'll have to give your suggestions a try, if I can get Qubes working on this new computer of mine. The question was meant to see how practical Qubes would be, under the assumption that I could install it. Will have to circle back to actually doing this. Guy -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/439cf18d-1b11-43ca-871d-80df560abbca%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
