Dear Andrew, Thank you for sharing the details. I have gone through them and will work to have a USB qube.
However, the issue of a partition unavailable to assign to a qube from Qubes VM Manager still exists - Given the fact that I am able to see/access that partition from File Manager in Dom0 (I understand the security risk) - All windows partitions were available to any qube earlier, only some are now available now. Any suggestions on getting this fixed please? Thanks and Regards, Srini On Tuesday, June 21, 2016 at 12:19:11 AM UTC+5:30, Andrew David Wong wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > On 2016-06-20 05:26, Srini wrote: > > Greetings! > > > > I have an NTFS partition labeled "Official". This is available to > > mount in Dom0 (via Thunar File Manager) and is unavailable while > > trying to assign to any of the qube (VMs) . > > > > However, I have another NTFS partition "Windows" and "RECOVERY" > > which is available both in Dom0 (via Thunar File Manager) and also > > available to assign to any of the qube (VMs). > > > > Also, tried refreshing using udevadm, but it did not help. > > > > Appreciate any help in fixing this. > > > > Thanks & Regards, Srini > > > > It is strongly recommended that you do not run the file manager in > dom0. See point 3 of this section: > > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/security-guidelines/#tocAnchor-1-1-10 > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.qubes-os.org%2Fdoc%2Fsecurity-guidelines%2F%23tocAnchor-1-1-10&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFFxqQaTVwoVpJZm6I7FattobBG5Q> > > > Also, I don't know how much or little you trust these disks, but in > general, it is strongly recommended that you do not attach any > untrusted disks in dom0. The safest thing to do is to use a USB qube, > assign any untrusted disks there, then attach them to other VMs using > qvm-block (which is what Qubes Manager does when it "attaches/detaches > block devices"). > > You can read more about creating and using a USB qube here: > > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/#tocAnchor-1-1-2 > <https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.qubes-os.org%2Fdoc%2Fusb%2F%23tocAnchor-1-1-2&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNHxzWka4PomHDUza5aHk-2AdSFFuQ> > > > - -- > Andrew David Wong (Axon) > Community Manager, Qubes OS > https://www.qubes-os.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > > iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJXaDqaAAoJENtN07w5UDAwhWwP/j4uIOOEC5FHigdMgmWPP6A4 > aulUhdoRk8l2dWp8Y1Zp++xwVJm0H9M2BZefwao7UeLuSDm4LPiXkUoXCXc2esaC > uVP62l0yd+7ZTs9o3zSTgurlr5DlCGmafo4QDOoPRkQl8m/bwQW7FNbjAK1mvivf > TG8BZ7f8a5Ma8Phsjbj0XIDn69FKGt8Cn1YBR5D0cpmaimpVjVFgCRbU79g/f2eu > CcAFw6Q5F1pult++ZZmqoPcVEarm6EQO2H8CqdsIXJhEzcxz2h9aKL9y03fgKKGs > DvSjYa2O/NtUcOkSuE7qJKVucii/s0fUKgVbwUSyOXG1IDh1CI9U+5i0U8159FNW > SkeYuq/0z7x4M9/aAQudtTQuMu9q5UnfABOG15Lv5UuMSI4qVOwe0+SbyqNoW0yZ > DSbBpEIUzHOCtA672tyKGdif1RuXCc5ymolXV5kDxViC+/HhfkiD3ofkT0pDB6ax > rL+pX1OBOZKoHLeyP532xT8XfGoQgrunYWBP1BXfmXRx5XFba5Uhuif2GI5BRaBg > FLXR2Nvum2n01cbi1Lp/NP+2yBrz6q82II4cU+AkHRjhS4D0pSLsgXDGfz7nh+8Z > 5vdk2wCVIjl1AVcCUc3QxxXIlhI45Ae77+XEkBB+Dg5m6DCwmNfbiyURE+FjTF1C > y2QnFPhfP0HfQmpucWBl > =Vq9e > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/d8eb9397-3fae-48ee-8cc1-69e049084065%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
