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Virtualization: How do I share a cloud drive mounted inside the guest with the host? (x-post from [email protected]) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Because the executable is proprietary (and a bit legacy I would say) and full of telemetry, undocumented and the cloud service has no CLI, WebDAV or rclone support. I do not want to run something like that on my personal computer and I do not know how to use bwrap properly and don't want to risk it. I have since switched over to a podman container but I encounter the same problem, the folder is empty on the host (See my post here: https://lemmy.ml/post/22215540).

Virtualization: How do I share a cloud drive mounted inside the guest with the host? (x-post from [email protected]) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Fair. I will try NFS if anything else fails. Thanks :)

Virtualization: How do I share a cloud drive mounted inside the guest with the host? (x-post from [email protected]) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I strongly disagree why this would not be beneficial. Could you expand?

Virtualization: How do I share a cloud drive mounted inside the guest with the host? (x-post from [email protected]) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

What would be the performance implications? Isn't virtiofs theoretically faster?

Virtualization: How do I share a cloud drive mounted inside the guest with the host? (x-post from [email protected]) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Every other solution looks more elegant on paper but has lots of pitfalls

A very sane and fair comment.

Virtualization: How do I share a cloud drive mounted inside the guest with the host? (x-post from [email protected]) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Then I will try NFS and get back to you. Thanks :)

Virtualization: How do I share a cloud drive mounted inside the guest with the host? (x-post from [email protected]) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

The cloud binary is proprietary and it's not supported by rclone unless I find out how the binary works but I doubt it uses something standardized like WebDAV underneath.

Virtualization: How do I share a cloud drive mounted inside the guest with the host? (x-post from [email protected]) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I can try but I might end up in the same situation as with virtiofs. The cloud drive will get unmounted and I will end up with an empty folder when I try to access it from the host.

Virtualization: How do I share a cloud drive mounted inside the guest with the host? (x-post from [email protected]) in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

The cloud drive is mounted on the guest, yes, but once I mount it with virtiofs in order to share it with the host it gets unmounted and I end up with an empty folder. bind doesn't work either.

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Virtualization: How do I share a cloud drive mounted inside the guest with the host? (x-post from [email protected] ) (lemmy.ml)

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Hi everyone! I want to be able to access a folder inside the guest that corresponds to a cloud drive that is mounted inside the guest for security purposes. I have tried setting up a shared filesystem inside Virt-Manager (KVM) with virtiofs (following this tutorial: https://absprog.com/post/qemu-kvm-shared-folder) but as soon as I mount the folder in order for it to be accessible on the ~~guest~~ host the cloud drive gets unmounted. I guess a folder cannot have two mounts at the same time. Aliasing the folder using bind and then sharing the aliased folder with the host doesn't work either. The aliased folder is simply empty on the host.

Does anyone have an idea regarding how I might accomplish this? Is KVM the right choice or would something like docker or podman better suited for this job? Thank you.