tahoe in a vm

[Daira Hopwood]

On 04/01/16 10:45, Freelab initiative wrote:
> Hello
> 
> 
> i would plan to install tahoe in a virtual machine
> 
> tahoe ex and tahoe node config files would be in the virtual machine

This should not cause any problem; I use Tahoe-LAFS frequently under
Virtual Box with Windows and Linux guests, and have never encountered any
bugs specific to running under a VM.

> and i would like tahoe files to preferably be out of the virtual machine

That might be a bit trickier; you'd have to set up a shared folder (or
equivalent for VMMs other than Virtual Box), and symlink the storage/
directory of the Tahoe node to a directory under the shared folder.
It should work, but I have not tested this and can't vouch for whether
it will be free of failure conditions that could cause data loss, or
poor performance. In general I think shared folders are a little flaky,
although my experience is only with Virtual Box.

-- 
Daira Hopwood  ⚧Ⓐ

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