How to enable KVM shared folders from cli

[Patrick]

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Question: Is there a better option without the <user_name>?

[Help Welcome] KVM Development - staying the course

Issue creating shared directory between host and guest reminds me… chmod 777 /home/user/shared isn’t a great. Security issue and usability issue. As per https://chmod-calculator.com/ 777 allow public (i.e. any linux user account including those not having business there on the system) to read, write, execute files from that folder. Is there some more canonical way to set up shared folders with KVM? [1] Under which user is KVM attempting to write to shared folders? [1] Under which group is KV…

Issue creating shared directory between host and guest

Issue: Issue creating shared directory between host and guest I was following the steps on how to create a shared directory between host and guest VM from this article(https://www.explorelinux.com/how-to-create-shared-directory-between-host-and-guest-in-kvm/) I didn’t get very far. Initial condition: shutdown whonix gateway and workstation In host OS: $ mkdir /home/(hostuser)/vmhost-share $ sudo chown libvirt-qemu:libvirt-qemu /home/(hostuser)/vmhost-share $ ls -ld vmhost-share drwxrwxrwx…