I installed some drivers on a sys-net-2 VM. Does that men they are installed on the template then?
On Friday, October 11, 2019 at 6:04:15 PM UTC-3, steve.coleman wrote: > > On 2019-10-11 14:16, Guerlan wrote: > > The root folder is shared, only the /home is unique for each VM. Does > > that mean that is I instal anything with sudo in one VM, it will affect > > the template and therefore all other VMs? > > When you install software in /usr or /opt in the template VM it will be > visible in all the user VM's that use that template. The settings to > automatically launch daemon processes may need to be enabled for each > AppVM depending on both yours and the particular software package > requirements. You may not necessarily need a cron job or a daemon to run > in every AppVM instance, for example. > > If you instead install software in the AppVM's /home/user/* or > /usr/local/* (basically any directory automatically remapped from the > private volume /rw/* ), then the software will be available only within > that single AppVM. > > Where it makes sense to install a particular third-party software > package depends highly on what that specific software needs in order to > function properly. If the software is installed locally in /usr/local > but then still wants its configuration files to be in /etc, or needs > cron, then you may need to work around that specific problem with either > copying the configuration file separately into the template VM /etc, or > else using some magic scripting during the AppVM startup to copy the > config file into the right location before the software that needs it is > actually started. There is usually a workaround that will get the job > done, but you may need to learn a bit more about how each software > package works than you normally would on some other less secure system. > > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/6c7e94cf-62fe-488c-9cc2-403a789f6762%40googlegroups.com.
