Send files directly to external storage mounted in other qube

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@Bearillo

Looking over this again and testing it I’ve fixed a little error in the “general implementation”, but I can’t get your “special” solution (with the VM folder already existing) to work unless using it the same way as the general implementation. On my system if I do ln -s /mnt/ QubesIncoming/vmname (with a pre-existing folder vmname) it will create the symlink inside that folder and so this solution won’t work. I can only get it to work by creating the symlink instead of the folder.

Also I’ve found that on Fedora-based VMs there are permissions problems; on Debian-based VMs it seems to work fine, at least the general solution does. I don’t have more time to test this, but that’s what I’ve found. In any case, the general solution seems to work well enough, at least on Debian.

@SteveC @solene I think the above is meant for one or both of you

@ludovic @SteveC I condensed your entries; please check for technical accuracy

@deeplow Great! Would you mind sprinkling some fairy dust onto the CPU Survey while you’re at it?