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.
Edit: To clarify:
The cloud drive is mounted inside a virtual machine for security purposes as the binary is proprietary and I do not want to mount it on the host (bwrap
and the like introduce a whole lot of problems, the drive doesn’t sync anymore and I have to relogin each time). I do not use the virtual machine per se, I just start it and leave it be.
Sorry I made a mistake in the original post. I wanted to say on the host instead of on the guest. My bad.
Yes, you are correct, the folder is empty until I log in insde the cloud application on the guest.
What do you mean? The cloud drive is a network drive basically. It only downloads files on demand.
This is what others have suggested and what I will probably do if the method below fails.
Yesterday I actually tried to spin a
podman
container hoping it would work but I encountered the following problem when trying to propagate mounts: https://lemmy.ml/post/22215540Could you please assist me there if you have further ideas? Thank you :)
I am VERY aware of this *sweating*