Is a sys-storage possible?

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Hi!

I was wondering whether I could create a vm called sys-storage that, in my case, hosts my music library. I would want to have my music vm have read-only access to a specific folder in my sys-storage. Sorry if this sounds confusing. Would this be possible? And if so, where should I look to get started?

Thanks!

EDIT: I wouldn’t use sys-storage for my music library alone. I would love to be able to store my keepass database, my school documents and more as well.

EDIT2: It would be ideal if I could give a vm write access to a specific folder as well, for example my keepass database

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Basically you want some sort of shared storage between Qubes. This is not recommended from the security perspective since you’re essentially creating a way for one qube to exploit another. Here are some related threads:

Another idea could be to have your music in the templateVM (in a persistent area. Not sure how sound this idea is, but that way it would be read-only (kind of).

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Thanks. I didn’t even think about the security implications if I’m being honest. Do you think it would still be relatively insecure if I didn’t share anything outside of their own ‘domain’? A domain is Personal-*, as in Personal-Firefox, Personal-Spotify etc.

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you could host nextcloud in your storage qube and mount it via WebDAV in a another qube… if it helps to ease your pain.

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Yes, it is possible. My favorite is NFS + qvm-connect-tcp

For Keepass database, I would suggest saving it in a vault qube or similar and passing the credentials to each VM via clipboard…

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