On Tuesday, May 30, 2017 at 10:37:09 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote:
> On Mon, 29 May 2017 21:41:02 -0700 (PDT)
> Vít Šesták
> <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > You are right, support for USB touchscreen is incomplete, see
> > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2281 . Maybe it would
> > not require much work.
> > 
> > You can also try to start sys-usb temporarily and then (when you have
> > no remaining connected device) to reassign the USB controller back to
> > dom0:
> > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/assigning-devices/#bringing-pci-device-back-to-dom0
> > 
> > Note that starting a non-HVM with USB controller (or any other PCI
> > device) might be a little challenging sometimes, because PV with PCI
> > require unfragmented memory. You can:
> > 
> > * Hope you will be lucky all the time.
> > * Give sys-usb as low memory as possible. (200MiB should be enough.)
> > * Attach USB controller to a HVM (which will probably consume more
> > memory, but it won't require it unfragmented) – requires VT-d/IOMMU.
> > * Shut some VMs down, ideally with temporarily disabled qmemman.
> > * Wait for Qubes 4. It will use HVMs (or probably slightly different
> > technology in 4.1) instead of PVs, so it won't require unfragmented
> > memory. Requires VT-d/IOMMU and few other virtualization features.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Vít Šesták 'v6ak'
> > 
> 
> Thanks again! As a slightly cruder solution to android photo access, I
> see that saving photos to a micoSD in the phone, removing it and
> sticking the card into a regular SD card adapter, and using that in the
> built in card-reader in my computer, allows access just like a USB
> stick or external hard drive, with the microSD appearing just like any
> external storage in the Qubes VM manager. 
> 
> Cheers.

oh I see yes.

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