Re: [qubes-users] How Qubes / and /home/user mounting as different disks works?

2020-03-09 Thread Guerlan
so if I understood correctly, all the work is done inside the VM, not outside? I can imagine mounting the root disk as read only and then setting up my VM to 'write' to this disk using these pointers you mentioned. Is this how it work? Which solution Qubes uses and do you know one for Ubuntu?

Re: [qubes-users] How Qubes / and /home/user mounting as different disks works?

2020-03-04 Thread Chris Laprise
On 3/4/20 10:19 PM, Guerlan wrote: I'm curious about how Qubes does this: mounts /home/user and other user-related directories from disk B mounts the / from disk A, but when VM shutdowns, disk is discarded I'm curious on how it mounts disk A. I don't think it makes a copy of disk A to a

Re: [qubes-users] How Qubes / and /home/user mounting as different disks works?

2020-03-04 Thread Chris Laprise
On 3/4/20 10:19 PM, Guerlan wrote: I'm curious about how Qubes does this: mounts /home/user and other user-related directories from disk B mounts the / from disk A, but when VM shutdowns, disk is discarded I'm curious on how it mounts disk A. I don't think it makes a copy of disk A to a

[qubes-users] How Qubes / and /home/user mounting as different disks works?

2020-03-04 Thread Guerlan
I'm curious about how Qubes does this: mounts /home/user and other user-related directories from disk B mounts the / from disk A, but when VM shutdowns, disk is discarded I'm curious on how it mounts disk A. I don't think it makes a copy of disk A to a temporary disk A', because that'd move