On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 2:00 PM, <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wednesday, May 25, 2016 at 1:24:04 AM UTC-4, J. Eppler wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > If there is another web conferencing app that works better for qubes I
> would be happy to try it.
> >
> > https://tox.chat/
> > - you will find the clients here: https://tox.chat/download.html
> > - I would use qTox or uTox for desktop systems
> >
> > or another one:
> >
> > https://jitsi.org/
> >
> > Best regards
> >   J. Eppler
>
> Does TOX have video?  if so how is the quality of the connection?
>
>
qTox and uTox do have video, but for using them in Qubes we have to deal
with the usual webcam issues, which means that a USB controller should be
assigned to a conference VM. I find this even more difficult now that the
current Xen version does not let me to assign one USB controller to
sys-usb and the other to a conference-VM anymore, because the two
controllers share some resources, which is a security issue. So both
controllers must go assigned to the same VM.

Otherwise one may think of making a script to hot assign USB controllers
form sys-usb to conference VM and then back again, but I have a feeling
that it would not work that way, rather need a reboot, then conference,
then a reboot again to come back to the starting setting, which seems too
much for me.

I also thought of putting an additional USB controller into the expresscard
slot, bought two of them rated as working with linux, but none really
worked with my Qubes.

I reverted to using another non-Qubes computer for conferences. But
obviously this is a very serious limitation.

So, writing this  I wonder if it may make sense to use sys-usb as a
conference VM. Sys-usb is red and should be considered compromised, but it
may be better to have a compromised conference than nothing. Certainly my
sys-usb is much more secure than the other non-Qubes computer that I am
using now. What do you think?

Best
Fran


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