Hey all! So far so good with QubesOS on my end. Have almost everything up and running to have this as my daily carry. It's amazing how little RAM all these VMs actually require; and the CPU! None!
Anyways, I am having some trouble configuring my DispVMs to allow me to use them for printing and scanning. The protocols and software for printing and scanning are both, as I recall, highly insecure. In addition, the devices that use them (i.e. printer, scanners) should be considered to be backdoored or owned already. I wanted to make it so that when I want to print something, I open up the file in a DispVM and print it from there. I then thought that I could approximately do the same thing with scanning. Open up a DispVM that is running simple-scan, scan the file into the DispVM and then copy it over to the VM that I want. By doing it this way I should be able to move out all the vulnerable printer and scanner code, and my AppVMs will never directly touch those devices or protocols. Instead they will be hidden behind the realtive safety of the Qubes file copy mechanism. I tried to follow the documentation page: - show internal VMs - run gnome-terminal in fedora-23-dvm - install and configure the necessary applications and hardware devices - touch the /home/user/.qubes-dispvm-customized - shutdown the VM - regenerate the DispVM template using: qvm-create-default-dvm --default-template When I opened up a DispVM the software was nowhere to be found (opened up Firefox, right clicked on the DispVM in the VM Manager and ran gnome-terminal). When I reopen fedora-23-dvm the software is nowhere to be found. So I believe either I am doing something stupid, or the documentation has it wrong. I did notice that the DispVMs start with a ttemplate of fedora-23. So then do they not actually use the fedora-23-dvm template like it says? Thanks in advance for your help! -- Respectfully, Sam Hentschel -- 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/20170406035927.GA952%40Personal-Email. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
