Dom0 (internal) tool to copy a file into specific place in a VM

[marmarek]

While at this... Would it be possible to use a different path other than /home please? Because that may introduce a risk in context of user-sysmaint-split (and maybe also in context of home noexec).

This is the path where qvm-copy puts the file, and copy source (intentionally) has no influence on the directory. While dom0 could use a different mechanism to send the file (even naive qvm-run ... 'cat > ...'), that would likely lead to other issues.

If there was a dom0 wrapper...

qvm-copy-to-path dest_vmname dom0-source-file-or-folder vm-destination-file-or-folder

Then qubes-dist-upgrade could conveniently use it to install the file to a more appropriate location such as in /usr/bin. That would be easier to read than the qvm-run ... 'cat > ...' syntax.

A dom0 tool qvm-copy-to-path would be nice to have anyhow for all sorts of system administration tasks. Or at least as an internal tool if not user facing.

Originally posted by @adrelanos in #10437

[alimirjamali]

What about keeping the qvm-copy-to-vm and making it like:

~ qvm-copy-to-vm 
usage: /usr/bin/qvm-copy-to-vm dest_vmname[:/path] file [file]+

Adding option path the the 1st argument?

[marmarek]

I don't want making qvm-copy-to-vm even more confusing (difference dom0 vs vm).