[qubes-users] Re: Install media won't boot

2016-06-02 Thread raahelps 
On Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 11:57:43 PM UTC-4, hugh...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 01:56:41 UTC+10, John Messina  wrote:
> > I created an install USB drive from the 3.1 ISO using Rufus (DD image).  I 
> > have secure boot off and have tried with legacy boot both on and off.  At 
> > the boot menu I've tried "test and install", "install", and "troubleshoot". 
> >  All have the same effect - the boot menu goes away and then immediately 
> > comes back up.  Any ideas what might be preventing the install from 
> > working?  The laptop is an HP with an AMD A6 processor.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance!
> > 
> > 
> > John
> 
> So it turns out the installation media is fine and I can boot from another 
> computer. Just like John, the machine I want to use doesn't work.
> I've made sure it supports vt-x and vt-d and they are set in the bios. I've 
> already installed the latest xen on this machine so I wonder what the problem 
> is.
> It there a way to see what's going on as I get no display whatsoever?
> 
> Hugh

check bios for legacy boot setting which works better with qubes. or check for 
external drive boot settings somehwere.

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[qubes-users] Re: Install media won't boot

2016-06-02 Thread hughbragg 
On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 01:56:41 UTC+10, John Messina  wrote:
> I created an install USB drive from the 3.1 ISO using Rufus (DD image).  I 
> have secure boot off and have tried with legacy boot both on and off.  At the 
> boot menu I've tried "test and install", "install", and "troubleshoot".  All 
> have the same effect - the boot menu goes away and then immediately comes 
> back up.  Any ideas what might be preventing the install from working?  The 
> laptop is an HP with an AMD A6 processor.
> 
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> 
> John

So it turns out the installation media is fine and I can boot from another 
computer. Just like John, the machine I want to use doesn't work.
I've made sure it supports vt-x and vt-d and they are set in the bios. I've 
already installed the latest xen on this machine so I wonder what the problem 
is.
It there a way to see what's going on as I get no display whatsoever?

Hugh

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Re: [qubes-users] No /dev/cdrom present?

2016-06-02 Thread Chris Laprise 



On 06/02/2016 06:40 PM, gaikokujinkyofu...@gmail.com wrote:

Hi I wanted to create a win7 HVM and was going to start off by making an iso 
from the CD I have but then I tried the simple dd if=/dev/cdrom 
of=~/win7_image.iso and I get an error:
dd: failed to open '/dev/cdrom': No such file or directory

I tried this from the term in the personal dom, but then opened up the term 
from the various doms (including dom0) to see if maybe the cdrom would show up 
then? (I am still wrapping my head around how Qubes works in terms of 
isolation, like would it perhaps isolate certain doms from seeing certain 
devices?)

Thoughts?


Try /dev/sr0 instead (in dom0). You can also try assigning it to a vm 
with 'qvm-block -a -ro vmname dom0:sr0'


...but you have to put the disc in first and it doesn't always work.

Chris

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[qubes-users] BIOS updates in qubes

2016-06-02 Thread Buck Smith 
With a Dell laptop  running qubes, presumably no BIOS updates happen, 
right?  One could still get attacked via BIOS is some had physical access 
to machine to swap out a part.  But not over internet.  Agree?  Disagree?

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[qubes-users] Re: WARNING: Whonix Meta Packages Test Result:

2016-06-02 Thread Albin Otterhaell 
raahe...@gmail.com:
> Whonix-Gateway detected, but the meta package qubes-whonix-gateway is not 
> installed. Did you accidentally uninstall it? 
> See also: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Whonix_Debian_Packages 
> If you know what you are doing, feel free to disable this check. Create a 
> file /etc/whonix.d/50_whonixcheck_user.conf and add: 
> whonixcheck_skip_functions+=" check_meta_packages "
> 
> What does this mean?  Only thing i noticed in past couple days is lots of 
> huge updates for the whonix, and one day it was taking a real long time.  How 
> do I fix this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

I reinstalled the package by executing the "sudo apt install
qubes-whonix-workstation" (happened to workstation too) and "sudo apt
install "sudo apt install qubes-whonix-gateway".

It's seems to be a bug with Whonix upgrade. But this issue should be
reported to the Whonix project directly. I CC'd Patrick.

Albin

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[qubes-users] No /dev/cdrom present?

2016-06-02 Thread gaikokujinkyofusho 
Hi I wanted to create a win7 HVM and was going to start off by making an iso 
from the CD I have but then I tried the simple dd if=/dev/cdrom 
of=~/win7_image.iso and I get an error:
dd: failed to open '/dev/cdrom': No such file or directory

I tried this from the term in the personal dom, but then opened up the term 
from the various doms (including dom0) to see if maybe the cdrom would show up 
then? (I am still wrapping my head around how Qubes works in terms of 
isolation, like would it perhaps isolate certain doms from seeing certain 
devices?)

Thoughts?

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[qubes-users] WARNING: Whonix Meta Packages Test Result:

2016-06-02 Thread raahelps 
Whonix-Gateway detected, but the meta package qubes-whonix-gateway is not 
installed. Did you accidentally uninstall it? 
See also: https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Whonix_Debian_Packages 
If you know what you are doing, feel free to disable this check. Create a file 
/etc/whonix.d/50_whonixcheck_user.conf and add: 
whonixcheck_skip_functions+=" check_meta_packages "

What does this mean?  Only thing i noticed in past couple days is lots of huge 
updates for the whonix, and one day it was taking a real long time.  How do I 
fix this?

Thanks.

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[qubes-users] Qubes OS' mailing lists now available via Gmane!

2016-06-02 Thread Albin Otterhaell 
I'm happy to announce that you are now able to subscribe and post
messages to Qubes OS' mailing lists (qubes-users and qubes-devel) via
Gmane! You can find the newsgroups at 'gmane.os.qubes.user' and
'gmane.os.qubes.devel'. I hope it will make it easier for you and any
future users to participate in our discussions and asking for support.

Gmane, for you that don't know, is a service that subscribe to mailing
list and make them available as newsgroups. This make is much easier to
subscribe (and unsubscribe) to mailing lists and start participating.

We are trying to get Gmane's maintainers to import the archives of the
mailing lists. Unsure ETA for that.

Regards,
Albin

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Re: [qubes-users] Re: Install media won't boot

2016-06-02 Thread John Messina 
I've confirmed that there isn't a problem with the installation USB drive. 
 I successfully used the same drive to install Qubes on a different PC. 
 I'm not sure why this PC isn't happy, but I know it has something to do 
with the PC itself.  My guess is that there is something wrong with the 
configuration of the PC that is preventing zen from starting.

On Thursday, June 2, 2016 at 1:13:55 PM UTC-4, Frank Schäckermann wrote:
>
>
>
> > On 02.06.2016, at 15:44, hughbragg-at-gmail.com 
> |qubes-mailing-list/Example Allow| <2j3a0...@sneakemail.com > 
> wrote: 
> > 
> >> On Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:33:04 UTC+10, hugh...@gmail.com  wrote: 
> >>> On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 01:56:41 UTC+10, John Messina  wrote: 
> >>> I created an install USB drive from the 3.1 ISO using Rufus (DD 
> image).  I have secure boot off and have tried with legacy boot both on and 
> off.  At the boot menu I've tried "test and install", "install", and 
> "troubleshoot".  All have the same effect - the boot menu goes away and 
> then immediately comes back up.  Any ideas what might be preventing the 
> install from working?  The laptop is an HP with an AMD A6 processor. 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> Thanks in advance! 
> >>> 
> >>> 
> >>> John 
> >> 
> >> I have a similar problem. In my case I don't even get the installation 
> menu. The computer tries to boot from the usb stick and eventually gives up 
> and boots the old operating system. I tried using linux dd to begin with 
> but when that didn't work I used Rufus as recommended but the result was 
> the same. 
> >> Any clues anyone? 
> > 
> > Is there any way to analyse the boot. I can't see a thing so have no 
> idea what the problem might be. How can I retrieve log or error data? 
>
> You are making sure, you are  writing the data to the device and not to a 
> partition on it, right? 
>
> The dd command ought to be: 
>
> dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/sdX 
>
> and NOT 
>
> dd if=filename.iso of=/dev/sdX1 
>
> Regards, Frank 
>
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Re: [qubes-users] Debian 8 Template, can't install printers

2016-06-02 Thread Chris Laprise 



On 06/02/2016 12:32 AM, Drew White wrote:



On Thursday, 2 June 2016 14:11:32 UTC+10, Chris Laprise wrote:



On 06/01/2016 10:29 PM, Drew White wrote:
>
> The UI he is describing is system-config-printer (Red Hat). He
> could try
> gnome-control-center ->Printers instead. That works for me.
>
> Chris
>
>
> Chris, that is essentially what I did. But not through the
> control center, just directly through the menu system and
> running that exact section.

The gnome utility is not the same as the system-config-printer
utility
(written by Red Hat). The former works fine for me in debian. BTW, I
setup my debian template using 'tasksel' and chose both debian
desktop
and gnome.


Isn't Gnome the Debian Dektop GUI?


All/most of gnome was missing back when I installed the debian template.



>
> I did the same thing in Fedora (RedHat) and it worked fine.
>
> After it detected the printer, it searched for the drivers, didn't
> find them, so I put the OpenDriver file on and installed it.
> RedHat based, easy. Debian based, crashed.

I have been manually choosing from the built-in drivers. For many
printers, you can use a driver with a model number that's close if
there's no exact match.


There is the problem in the first place. That's the bit I can't get 
to, as per my OP.

I can't get THAT far. If I could then I wouldn't be having the issue
and be here trygin to get an answer.


Its only about the 5th step when I do it. I suggest you go in through 
the gnome-control-center, click on the Plus sign, enter the printer IP 
address in the search dialog (printer should then appear, perhaps more 
than once), then select the LPD entry and 'Add'.  At that point you 
should have a driver selection dialog, with manufacturers on the left 
and drivers on the right.




>
> Currently on Debian 8. I don't know if it's a bug in Debian 8
> or not though.

Either in debian or the driver.

It could be something in Debian OR the Qubes Drivers. Not the Printer 
drivers, as I can't even get to the point to select them.




Its also possible something about your debian template became corrupt. 
If so, you could reinstall it.


Chris

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[qubes-users] Restoring Dom0 networking + mitigating drawbacks + compiling a program from source in Dom0

2016-06-02 Thread daltong defourne 
Hello!
First and foremost, I did google and I did read this thread about Dom0 not 
being networkable anymore 
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/c2RyhLmTCm4/VQXWnHtyBQAJ

However, I need to have 3d acceleration available to a trusted-ish (in the 
sense, developed in-house) program that would need network access.

Performance w/o acceleration access is unacceptable, while accelerated 
performance is okay (tested on raw fedora) so just giving up and running it 
in a Qubes AppVM is sadly not an option

The software also needs network access.

Current plan is to 
1) restore Dom0 networking via netvm
2) build the program inside Dom0
3) take additional steps to mitigate possible risks (maybe run it in 
something like firejail -  software in question runs well inside firejail 
in isolated network namespace as non-root with firejail's secomp and caps 
filters enabled)

Thus questions are:

a) how do I restore Dom0 networking via netvm "properly"?

b) are there any additional pitfalls to compiling stuff in Dom0

c) what mitigations beyond firejail would be prudent (maybe also run 
something like pdnsd in netvm to deal with DNS-related issues mentioned here 

specifically?)

d) is this entire undertaking a worse idea than "just run this 
"trusted-ish" thing on an arch linux machine with grsec and a few KVM VM's 
for isolating less trusted apps" ?

Thank you!

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[qubes-users] Re: Install media won't boot

2016-06-02 Thread hughbragg 
On Thursday, 2 June 2016 17:33:04 UTC+10, hugh...@gmail.com  wrote:
> On Wednesday, 25 May 2016 01:56:41 UTC+10, John Messina  wrote:
> > I created an install USB drive from the 3.1 ISO using Rufus (DD image).  I 
> > have secure boot off and have tried with legacy boot both on and off.  At 
> > the boot menu I've tried "test and install", "install", and "troubleshoot". 
> >  All have the same effect - the boot menu goes away and then immediately 
> > comes back up.  Any ideas what might be preventing the install from 
> > working?  The laptop is an HP with an AMD A6 processor.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks in advance!
> > 
> > 
> > John
> 
> I have a similar problem. In my case I don't even get the installation menu. 
> The computer tries to boot from the usb stick and eventually gives up and 
> boots the old operating system. I tried using linux dd to begin with but when 
> that didn't work I used Rufus as recommended but the result was the same.
> Any clues anyone?

Is there any way to analyse the boot. I can't see a thing so have no idea what 
the problem might be. How can I retrieve log or error data?

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[qubes-users] Re: HVM Mouse Emulation Options

2016-06-02 Thread Drew White 


On Sunday, 8 May 2016 09:31:31 UTC+10, fred_...@sigaint.org wrote:
>
> I've installed an Android-based HVM (Remix OS). When installed on bare 
> metal, physical usb mice behave like normal desktop mice in the OS. 
>
> However, in the HVM, the cursor needs to be dragged around with the mouse. 
> I read previously on qubes-users that Qubes uses USB Tablet emulation. 
> Could that be the cause? Is it possible to use PS/2 emulation instead? 
>
> I'm not sure if this is more of a Xen topic than a Qubes one. Tried 
> searching for "xen virtual mouse usb tablet ps/2" with no success. Thanks 
> in advance! 
>
>
I have no issue with this. the cursor works normally for me. Wether it be 
x86 or x64 it doesn't matter.
I move the mouse and click and it works. 

Perhaps there is some other issue with your PC/Virtual?

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