Feature discussion: creating storage volumes

[thomas...@gmail.com]

I wanted to ask about including a feature in Qubes to create storage volumes on disk which can then be assigned to a VM.

Presently, I'm writing an ISO to a USB, by downloading it in one VM, and writing it to disk in another. Instead of copying the data, I'd rather write it directly to a volume I can later mount on the other VM.

I imagine it'd go into Qubes Manager, listing volumes, their usage, and where each is attached.

It's of course possible with a second drive, or making space on my drive for other volume, but I'd much rather they were managed they qubes.

I haven't found a discussion on this before, please forgive me if I missed it!

[Chris Laprise]

This could be nice to have. I imagine it would let you pick any file or
device from a VM, do a 'losetup' if necessary, then attach it to the
desired target VM. The final step could have check boxes for A)
decrypting a LUKS volume, and B) mounting the filesystem (if any).

An extra option to link the volume to QubesIncoming might also be nice.
Currently, in order to send info directly from one VM to an external
disk in another VM, you have to use 'mount --bind' in addition to all of
the above steps.

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