Because the executable is proprietary (and a bit legacy I would say) and full of telemetry, undocumented and the cloud service has no CLI, WebDAV or rclone support. I do not want to run something like that on my personal computer and I do not know how to use bwrap properly and don’t want to risk it. I have since switched over to a podman container but I encounter the same problem, the folder is empty on the host (See my post here: https://lemmy.ml/post/22215540).

I have already tried that. It doesn’t work, the cloud folder is empty on the host.

Fair. I will try NFS if anything else fails. Thanks :)

I strongly disagree why this would not be beneficial. Could you expand?

What would be the performance implications? Isn’t virtiofs theoretically faster?

Every other solution looks more elegant on paper but has lots of pitfalls

A very sane and fair comment.

Then I will try NFS and get back to you. Thanks :)

The cloud binary is proprietary and it’s not supported by rclone unless I find out how the binary works but I doubt it uses something standardized like WebDAV underneath.

I can try but I might end up in the same situation as with virtiofs. The cloud drive will get unmounted and I will end up with an empty folder when I try to access it from the host.

The cloud drive is mounted on the guest, yes, but once I mount it with virtiofs in order to share it with the host it gets unmounted and I end up with an empty folder. bind doesn’t work either.