Hi Marek,
The link you provided includes a comment from user "easydozen" who claims
to have a fork for working Win10 USB drivers.
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5802#issuecomment-691957171
I don't have a Windows build environment. Does anyone have pre-compiled
binaries?
-Neal
On Monday, May 24, 2021 at 5:57:18 PM UTC-6 [email protected]
wrote:
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> On Mon, May 24, 2021 at 09:30:12AM -0700, Neal Krawetz wrote:
> > I think I'm really close to getting Win10 running with USB support under
> > Qubes R4, but I need some help.
> >
> > According to the official docs, Win10 HVM with QWT should have full USB
> > support:
> >
> https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs/os/windows/windows-tools.md
> > But as anyone who has ever tried to install it knows, the installation
> has
> > problems.
> >
> > As far as I can tell, the main problems are in the installation code for
> > QWT on the Windows side.
> >
> > Here's what I have working so far:
> > 1. Install Win10 as an HVM. (Baseline.)
> >
> > 2. Install 7-zip, since it will be needed to unpack tar files.
> >
> > 3. Go to
> > https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-framework/net35-sp1/. This
> is
> > needed to install QWT. (QWT requires .NET version 3.5, but doesn't wait
> for
> > it to install. To make it work correctly, install .NET version 3.5
> first!)
> >
> > 4. Go to https://xenbits.xenproject.org/pvdrivers/win/ and download the
> > 9.0.0 tar files for xenbus, xenvkb, and xeniface.
> > Unpack the tar files.
> > Install xenbus/x64/ and xenvkb/x64/ but do NOT reboot.
> > No NOT install xeniface -- you'll need that later to fix a missing dll.
> > After it is installed, reboot.
>
> Does installing xeniface here cause any issues?
>
> > 5. Go to https://ftp.qubes-os.org/qubes-windows-tools/ and download
> > qubes-tools-4.0.1.3.exe
> > Run it.
> > De-select pvdrivers and migrate user account.
> > Install.
> > When it's done, reboot.
> >
> > 6. The QWT exe failed to install everything it needs. As far as I can
> tell,
> > the CAB file buried inside the EXE didn't install and the installer just
> > ignored the error. As a result, the Qubes services did not start. (Go to
> > the Start menu, type Services, and open the Services app. Jump down the
> > Qubes in the services list and you'll see that they didn't start.)
> > I suspect that the installer worked under Win7 but does not work under
> > Win10.
> > The problem for the missing services comes from two missing dll files:
> > xencontrol.dll and libxenvchan.dll.
>
> Those two are installed as part of "pvdrivers" option, that you
> deselected in the step 5... But then, I think QWT ships older version of
> pvdrivers, so selecting that is also not ideal.
>
> > xencontrol.dll is in the xeniface.tar file (this is why I had you
> > downloaded the tar). Copy the dll to "C:\Program Tools\Invisible Things
> > Lab\Qubes Tools\bin\" and paste it right next to qubesdb-daemon.exe
> >
> > libxenvchan.dll is buried inside the exe. This takes a linux system to
> > extract:
> > cabextract qubes-tools-4.0.1.3.exe # lots of files, you want "a1". a1 is
> > an exe that won't run under Win10
> > 7z x a1 content.cab # extract the cab file from a1
> > cabextract -Flibxen\* content.cab # this extracts libxenvchan.UUID
> > mv libxenvchan.* libxenvchan.dll
> > Transfer this dll to some web site and then download it into the Windows
> VM.
> > Copy the dll to "C:\Program Tools\Invisible Things Lab\Qubes Tools\bin\"
> > and paste it right next to qubesdb-daemon.exe
> >
> > 7. Reboot the Windows VM. Now the services are running!
> > Confirm this: Go to the Start menu, type Services, and open the Services
> > app. Jump down the Qubes in the services list and you'll see that they
> > started.
> >
> > At this point, things that work:
> > + USB block devices, such as a thumb drive, can be attached to the WinVM.
> >
> > Things that do not work:
> > - USB character devices, like a webcam, yubikey, or smartcard reader,
> > fail. The error: "qrexec not connected"
>
> That is expected, I think. Full support for USB devices is in progress:
> https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/5802
>
> > I suspect the problem is that more files in the cab need to be installed
> > but are missing. Does anyone know what files are needed, where they go,
> and
> > what (if any) registry changes are needed?
> >
> > Does anyone recognize the problem or have an idea about how to fix it?
>
> - --
> Best Regards,
> Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
> Invisible Things Lab
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