On Sat, Feb 04, 2017 at 07:02:57PM +0100, john.david.r.smith wrote: > On 04/02/17 18:42, Loren Rogers wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I'm confused about running disposable VMs - if I open a browser or file > >viewer, then want to open a terminal for the same VM, how could I do this? > >(E.g. I want to view an untrusted file, then make some edits.) > right click the dispvm in the qubes manager. > select run command. > enter xterm or whatever you want to run > > or user (in dom0) qvm-run DISPVM_NAME xterm > > > >Is there a way to configure the default disposable VM in the Qubes menu? I > >see that disposable VMs can be configured for individual domains, but I > >can't find where the generic one is. > > > >Also, is it possible to specify a different template for disposable > >machines? Say I'm running something based on the default fedora-23, and I > >want to open a document from my work VM, which uses that template. But I > >want to open it with my fedora-23-custom template as a disposable VM. (E.g. > >running a video in VLC that has untrustworthy components.) Is this doable? > > currently you can only have one dispvm. > if you want, you can set the template as default for dispvms > (qvm-create-default-dvm) > > -john
Loren, You can't configure disposable VMs for individual qubes - what you can do is change the netVM which will apply if you start a disposableVM from that qube. The dispVM that will be started is determined by the default dvm, and this is set by qvm-create-default-dvm. As John said, you can only have one default dvm, but it's trivial to work around this with a small script. It's possible to do this because qvm-create-default-dvm does NOT remove the files for old dvms. You can see this if you generate a new default-dvm, and then look in /var/lib/qubes/appvms. So if you generate a number of different dvms based on different templates, it's simple to switch between them before launching a new dispVM. The launch time isn't noticeably different from starting up a new dispVM, and voila - multiple template disposable VMs on the cheap. I do this without any apparent ill effects, but it certainly isn't part of the canon. unman -- 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 qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20170204205904.GB32031%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
