I am somewhat unsure that this is the right category, but the others doesn’t seem to be fitting too.
If somebody would use Virtualbox Whonix Workstation in Live-Mode and still would like to be able to take notes or save a screenshot. How could that be accomplished? Something like the Tails Persistent Storage option would be awesome…
I was thinking about attaching a USB with passthrough to access a location, but that seems not recommended. Another idea was to use an online tool/cloud storage (which could be accessed through the browser) but that brings up other security disadvantages. Would love to hear your ideas or approaches.
Approaches where it seems to be these would have good success chances:
A) Add a separate hard drive.
“forget” about live mode for a while
Debian in a VM (not Whonix for simplicity)
figure out how to add a second virtual hard drive and how to use it
do the same with Whonix persistent
do the same with Whonix Live
In that order for the sake of:
B) re-mount read-write
As long as the drive isn’t set to read-only mode and as long as you have sudo access, in theory you should be able to re-mount a specific folder with read/write.
it can be done. i’ve added an additional virtual hard drive. then, for the folders that i want to be able to maintain persistent storage, i move those folders to the additional virtual drive and add a symbolic link to them on the original virtual drive that will be run in live mode.