Sharing a profile between several Linux hosts is not an easy task for the moment. You will be tempted to share exactly the same profile folder, but this will cause some problems with local settings. The easiest solution is to create a .roaming
folder in which you will put all the files you want to share, and share it between all hosts. Then you will create symbolic links to this .roaming
folder.
Here is a script to create all the links for you. You can re-run it if you have added a new file or folder in your .roaming
folder.
roaming.sh <roaming folder> <profile folder>
#! /bin/sh ROA_IN=${1:-~/.roaming} ROA_OUT=${2:-~} ROA_BK="$ROA_OUT/.roaming-bk" echo "Link roaming space $ROA_IN to $ROA_OUT. Are you sure? <y,n>" read REPLYST if [ ! "x$REPLYST" = "xy" ] then exit 1 fi #Treat all files, inclugind hidden file, but excluding the current script. for FILE in $(ls -A $ROA_IN | grep -v -e "^$0$" ) do #echo $ROA_IN/$FILE #Skip existing correct links if [ -h $ROA_OUT/$FILE ] then if [ "x$( readlink '$ROA_OUT/$FILE')" = "x$( readlink -f '$ROA_IN/$FILE')" ] then continue fi fi # Move existing files to backup if [ -e $ROA_OUT/$FILE ] then # Create backup folder if [ ! -d $ROA_BK ] then if [ -e $ROA_BK ] then echo "[ERROR] $ROA_BK exists but is not a folder. Please fix this." exit 2 fi mkdir -p $ROA_BK fi # If destination exists, ask if the user want to remove it if [ -e $ROA_BK/$FILE ] then echo "[?] Backup already exists in $ROA_BK/$FILE; replace it? [y,n]" read REPLYBK if [ "x$REPLYBK" = "xy" ] then echo "Removing $ROA_BK/$FILE" rm -Rf "$ROA_BK/$FILE" else echo "[ERROR] Cannot backup existing file $ROA_BK/$FILE. Please fix this." exit 3 fi fi # Move file echo "Backuping $ROA_OUT/$FILE to $ROA_BK/$FILE" mv "$ROA_OUT/$FILE" "$ROA_BK/$FILE" fi # Link roaming file echo "Link $ROA_IN/$FILE to $ROA_OUT/$FILE" ln -s "$ROA_IN/$FILE" "$ROA_OUT/$FILE" done
In order to avoid problems with user rights in your virtfs folder (and avoid ‘Permission denied’ in folder withoud read attributes for everybody), you must start qemu with no confinment. To do this, edit /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf
and uncomment/add these lines
security_default_confined = 0 security_require_confined = 0 user = "root"