{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1324","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1324/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1324/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1324/events","html_url":"https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1324","id":110881711,"number":1324,"title":"provide an easy command line tool for copying between vm and dom0","user":{"login":"adrelanos","id":1985040,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1985040?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrelanos","html_url":"https://github.com/adrelanos","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrelanos/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrelanos/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrelanos/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrelanos/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrelanos/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrelanos/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrelanos/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrelanos/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/adrelanos/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":8,"created_at":"2015-10-11T20:49:21Z","updated_at":"2015-11-03T00:15:57Z","closed_at":null,"body":"(At the Tor summer dev meeting,) @bnvk, @mfc and I agreed that the instructions from https://www.qubes-os.org/en/doc/copy-to-dom0/, i.e. the command `qvm-run --pass-io <src_domain> 'cat /path/to/file_in_src_domain' > /path/to/file_name_in_dom0` and philosophy `we intentionally do not provide a convenient tool for copying files between VMs and Dom0` should be replaced with something more usable.\r\n\r\nIn my opinion, making even the command line difficult to use (even advanced users have to look up that syntax), adds extra difficulty to debugging issues (where dom0 logs need to be shared)."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/comments/153201368","html_url":"https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1324#issuecomment-153201368","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1324","id":153201368,"user":{"login":"marmarek","id":726704,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/726704?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/marmarek","html_url":"https://github.com/marmarek","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marmarek/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marmarek/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marmarek/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marmarek/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marmarek/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marmarek/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marmarek/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marmarek/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/marmarek/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-03T00:15:56Z","updated_at":"2015-11-03T00:15:56Z","body":"@rustybird qvm-copy-from-vm implementation looks good. Maybe it would be better to force some target directory, to not forget that some file came from a VM.\r\nThe question is whether we want to have such tool at all? @rootkovska @mfc "}}