On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 03:10:07PM -0300, Franz wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 12:16 PM, Alan Got <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > I'm using usb mouse and keyboard attached to InputVM (usb controler 1).
> > Another usb controller (2) is attached to UntrustedVM. When I need to
> > restart computer I'm disconnecting physically all usb devices attached to
> > controller (2). It is possible that controller (2) would compromise Qubes
> > at boot time?
> >
> 
> I suppose that with the word "attached" you mean what in  Qubes definitions
> is called "assigned".
> 
> In this case can tell that when I tried to assign two different USB
> controllers to two different VMs, dom0 refused to do that claiming that the
> controllers were sharing some resources and so there was a security risk.
> So, if in  your case you were allowed to do that, then your controllers
> should be really separated and that may be encouraging.
> 
> best
> Fran
> 
> 
> > My mainboard don't have any PS/2 ports and my processor don't support TXT
> > (to use AEM), it only support IOMMU.

The boot option rd.qubes.hide_all_usb is intended to stop dom0 from
being compromised by a malicious controller. Since you have VT-d you
should be all right. (Check that you are booting with that option
obviously.)

unman

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