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On Mon, Jun 15, 2020 at 05:52:01PM -0700, Thorsten Schierer wrote:
> Hi, I installed the latest test version of Qubes 4.1, which worked just 
> fine.
> Since there are some issues on my test machine, I always have to use pv for 
> vm's in Qubes 4.0.
> (vt-d is enabled but doesn't seem to work correctly, but since it's only my 
> test/development machine it doesn't really matter)
> 
> Now in Qubes 4.1, sys-net fails to start with the message 
> "libxl__domain_config_setdefault: passthrough not supported on this 
> platform"
> So my question at this point is: Is PV still working in Qubes 4.1 and if 
> so, is this a known issue at the moment?
> Anything I can do to fix this problem in 4.1?

Yes, PV still works in Qubes 4.1 (we will phase it out some day, but not
yet). No, systems without working IOMMU are not supported anymore at all
(even with PV hack).
I know it may be inconvenient for test setups (in fact it also affects
some of our development setup too), but we won't support systems without
(or with broken) IOMMU in official builds anymore. This is mainly part
of ensuring that "I run Qubes OS" is a statement meaning some baseline
of system security, and having sys-net/sys-usb with unrestricted access
to the whole host physical memory falls outside of this baseline.

What you can probably do for the test setup, is to build Xen with this
check commented out. I haven't tried it, but it should be possible.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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