[qubes-users] Re: Desktop shell choices & integration on dom0

2017-05-20 Thread Reg Tiangha
On 05/20/2017 11:51 PM, David Seaward wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to change the desktop shell for dom0, for example from > XFCE to GNOME? > > Additionally, I'm used to getting some degree of application/shell > integration: notifications, tray icons, widgets (e.g. a controller for > the music

[qubes-users] Desktop shell choices & integration on dom0

2017-05-20 Thread David Seaward
Hi, Is it possible to change the desktop shell for dom0, for example from XFCE to GNOME? Additionally, I'm used to getting some degree of application/shell integration: notifications, tray icons, widgets (e.g. a controller for the music app). Do VM apps integrate with the dom0 shell? Regards,

[qubes-users] is vpn made manually, not supposed to restart after suspend?

2017-05-20 Thread fooyreb
Helo, So, I've setup a proxyVM for the VPN, via the "CLI version" https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/vpn/ However, when I suspend Qubes, and wakeup Qubes, the networking is lost, I then have to shut down or alter the network choice for 2-3 AppVMs that use it and restart the ProxyVM, I'd rather not do

Re: [qubes-users] Why should I clone a template?

2017-05-20 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2017-05-20 21:59, Todd Lasman wrote: > > On 05/20/2017 06:12 PM, Andrew David Wong wrote: >> On 2017-05-20 19:43, Todd Lasman wrote: >>> The dogma, as I understand it, is that it's safer to clone a >>> template, make changes to the clone, then

[qubes-users] Re: Unable to install R3.1 / media check failure

2017-05-20 Thread wilberth . lemaitre
Hi, I had the same issue with Rufus, then I used Etcher and it did work perfectly. Check: https://etcher.io/ Hope it works for all! -- 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,

[qubes-users] Re: Unable to install R3.1 / media check failure

2017-05-20 Thread wilberth . lemaitre
On Thursday, 21 April 2016 19:45:28 UTC-6, Cory Nelson wrote: > Hello, > > > I'm attempting to install Qubes 3.1 but am having an issue during the media > check. It fails at 4.8% every time on two different laptops (Lenovo E540 and  > Dell Inspiron 7548) and two different flash drives, so I

Re: [qubes-users] Why should I clone a template?

2017-05-20 Thread Todd Lasman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/20/2017 06:12 PM, Andrew David Wong wrote: > On 2017-05-20 19:43, Todd Lasman wrote: > > The dogma, as I understand it, is that it's safer to clone a template, > > make changes to the clone, then base your AppVM's off of that cloned > >

Re: [qubes-users] VM kernel does not exist: /var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/4.4.38-11/vmlinuz

2017-05-20 Thread Franz
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 7:49 PM, Unman wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 07:34:28PM -0300, Franz wrote: > > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Unman > wrote: > > > > > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 04:27:24PM -0300, Franz wrote: > > > > Hello, > >

Re: [qubes-users] Why should I clone a template?

2017-05-20 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2017-05-20 19:43, Todd Lasman wrote: > The dogma, as I understand it, is that it's safer to clone a template, > make changes to the clone, then base your AppVM's off of that cloned > template. > > - From the Qubes website: > "It is highly

[qubes-users] internet connection not working

2017-05-20 Thread aforete
My internet connection is not working, except in whonix. This seems similar to the issue referenced in the faq: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/user-faq/#my-qubes-lost-internet-access-after-a-templatevm-update-what-should-i-do But the proposed fix does not work. I reinstalled qubes, but I still can't

Re: [qubes-users] which things are, and which things are not encrypted on the disk.

2017-05-20 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2017-05-18 02:55, Zrubi wrote: > On 05/18/2017 09:48 AM, pandakaas...@gmail.com wrote: >> I recently came across this PDF file stating that dom0 and the >> hypervisor (Xen) are stored unencrypted on the disk, because the >> disk wouldnt be able

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Why should I clone a template?

2017-05-20 Thread Todd Lasman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/20/2017 05:51 PM, Reg Tiangha wrote: > On 05/20/2017 06:43 PM, Todd Lasman wrote: >> The dogma, as I understand it, is that it's safer to clone a template, >> make changes to the clone, then base your AppVM's off of that cloned >> template.

[qubes-users] Re: Why should I clone a template?

2017-05-20 Thread Reg Tiangha
On 05/20/2017 06:43 PM, Todd Lasman wrote: > The dogma, as I understand it, is that it's safer to clone a template, > make changes to the clone, then base your AppVM's off of that cloned > template. > > - From the Qubes website: > "It is highly recommended to clone the original template, and make

[qubes-users] Why should I clone a template?

2017-05-20 Thread Todd Lasman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 The dogma, as I understand it, is that it's safer to clone a template, make changes to the clone, then base your AppVM's off of that cloned template. - From the Qubes website: "It is highly recommended to clone the original template, and make any

[qubes-users] Re: Wifi not reconnecting after sleep

2017-05-20 Thread Reg Tiangha
On 05/20/2017 04:53 PM, Reg Tiangha wrote: > On 05/20/2017 08:23 AM, Dominique St-Pierre Boucher wrote: >> Hello Qubes users >> >> Everything was working fine until updates were installed a couples of week >> back. I was unable to get wifi access back after a sleep. My sys-net vm use >> a

[qubes-users] Re: Wifi not reconnecting after sleep

2017-05-20 Thread Reg Tiangha
On 05/20/2017 08:23 AM, Dominique St-Pierre Boucher wrote: > Hello Qubes users > > Everything was working fine until updates were installed a couples of week > back. I was unable to get wifi access back after a sleep. My sys-net vm use a > minimal debian stretch template and I never had a sleep

Re: [qubes-users] VM kernel does not exist: /var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/4.4.38-11/vmlinuz

2017-05-20 Thread Unman
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 07:34:28PM -0300, Franz wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Unman wrote: > > > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 04:27:24PM -0300, Franz wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > the usual trick of selecting other kernel in Qubes manager does not work > > >

Re: [qubes-users] VM kernel does not exist: /var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/4.4.38-11/vmlinuz

2017-05-20 Thread Franz
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 7:20 PM, Unman wrote: > On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 04:27:24PM -0300, Franz wrote: > > Hello, > > > > the usual trick of selecting other kernel in Qubes manager does not work > > running > > qvm-prefs -s kernel default > > gives > > A VM with the

Re: [qubes-users] VM kernel does not exist: /var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/4.4.38-11/vmlinuz

2017-05-20 Thread Unman
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 04:27:24PM -0300, Franz wrote: > Hello, > > the usual trick of selecting other kernel in Qubes manager does not work > running > qvm-prefs -s kernel default > gives > A VM with the name 'kernel" does not exist in tne system > > ls /var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/ > gives >

Re: [qubes-users] start application on startup

2017-05-20 Thread Unman
On Thu, May 18, 2017 at 01:24:28AM +, aforete wrote: > Hello, I was wondering if there is a way of starting an application > automatically on starting a vm in qubes. Say I want to start thunderbird > once the 'work' vm starts up. I usually do this using a cronjob so I type > crontab -e > in a

Re: [qubes-users] CLI: How to read out the currently set base image for disposable VMs?

2017-05-20 Thread Unman
On Sat, May 20, 2017 at 09:28:48PM +0200, Johannes Graumann wrote: > See subject line ;) > > Joh ls -l /var/lib/qubes/dvmdata/* This will show you which dvmTemplate is being used to generate the disposableVMs -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

[qubes-users] Re: [3.2] HCL report for Inspiron 15-5578 (AKA 15z Touch)

2017-05-20 Thread Reg Tiangha
On 05/20/2017 01:51 PM, Vít Šesták wrote: >> I am wondering if Haswell and newer is more tightly >> bound to the Intel ME to the point where those machines actually need >> the driver enabled to work correctly. I don't think that's the case, but >> a sanity check would be useful. > It it just

[qubes-users] Re: [3.2] HCL report for Inspiron 15-5578 (AKA 15z Touch)

2017-05-20 Thread Vít Šesták
> There's a 4.9.28 kernel in dom0 current-testing now, perhaps that might > give you better hardware support? Ah, something new! Thanks for noting. I'll try it and let you know. > If you can give me the output of sensors-detect and lspci in dom0 Well, here you are:

[qubes-users] Request for feedback: 4.9 Kernel

2017-05-20 Thread Reg Tiangha
People may not have noticed, but there is now a 4.9 kernel in current-testing (4.9.28 to be specific). If the release schedule holds, then that should be migrated to stable soon, however, before that happens, some feedback on that kernel would be useful before it gets pushed to the majority of

[qubes-users] Re: Swap space and reducing memory usage?

2017-05-20 Thread Vít Šesták
> Edit /etc/default/grub in dom0 Note that /etc/default/grub applies on legacy boot only. If you have UEFI (like me), you have to edit /boot/efi/EFI/qubes/xen.cfg in a similar way. Unlike with grub, you just save the file and reboot, without any need of regenerating any file. When I update

[qubes-users] CLI: How to read out the currently set base image for disposable VMs?

2017-05-20 Thread Johannes Graumann
See subject line ;) Joh -- 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] VM kernel does not exist: /var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/4.4.38-11/vmlinuz

2017-05-20 Thread Franz
Hello, the usual trick of selecting other kernel in Qubes manager does not work running qvm-prefs -s kernel default gives A VM with the name 'kernel" does not exist in tne system ls /var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/ gives 4.4.55-11 4.4.62-12 4.4.67-12 However one of the VMs does correctly starts. this

[qubes-users] Re: Swap space and reducing memory usage?

2017-05-20 Thread Vít Šesták
Hello, > I have a 16gb mem system which can't be upgraded any further to my knwoledge. What is the reason? CPU limits? MoBo limits? Soldered RAM? If the reason is just MoBo limit, you can just try to ignore it? My old laptop was officially able to have at most 8GiB RAM because of MoBo

[qubes-users] Re: [3.2] HCL report for Inspiron 15-5578 (AKA 15z Touch)

2017-05-20 Thread Reg Tiangha
On 05/20/2017 12:48 PM, Vít Šesták wrote: > Hello, > I am sending the HCL report. > > I am not sure what model number to use, because the commonly used 15-5578 > refers to various configuration. But when I use TN-5578-N2-711S, it seems to > refer to very specific piece of hardware (with

[qubes-users] [3.2] HCL report for Inspiron 15-5578 (AKA 15z Touch)

2017-05-20 Thread Vít Šesták
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[qubes-users] Re: HCL - Asus Laptop F556UA-UH71 i7-7500U Intel HD 620

2017-05-20 Thread 'Mike Freemon' via qubes-users
On 04/29/2017 05:36 PM, 'Mike Freemon' via qubes-users wrote: Hello, I'm a big fan of Qubes. Keep up the excellent work. My initial contribution to the cause is this HCL. Qubes is working great on the titular laptop, but there were some challenges to overcome during installation. 1. UEFI.

[qubes-users] start application on startup

2017-05-20 Thread aforete
Hello, I was wondering if there is a way of starting an application automatically on starting a vm in qubes. Say I want to start thunderbird once the 'work' vm starts up. I usually do this using a cronjob so I type crontab -e in a terminal in 'work' and add the line: @reboot /usr/bin/thunderbird I

[qubes-users] https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/vpn/

2017-05-20 Thread fooyreb
Helo, So, I've setup a proxyVM for the VPN, via the "CLI version" https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/vpn/ However, when I suspend Qubes, and wakeup Qubes, the networking is lost, I then have to shut down or alter the network choice for 2-3 AppVMs that use it and restart the ProxyVM, I'd rather not do

[qubes-users] Re: Swap space and reducing memory usage?

2017-05-20 Thread Reg Tiangha
On 05/20/2017 10:51 AM, Gaiko Kyofusho wrote: > I have a 16gb mem system which can't be upgraded any further to my > knwoledge. I had thought this would be enough but I am running into > memory errors more often than I would like. I admittedly open maybe > 7-12 appvms so the obvious answer to my

[qubes-users] Swap space and reducing memory usage?

2017-05-20 Thread Gaiko Kyofusho
I have a 16gb mem system which can't be upgraded any further to my knwoledge. I had thought this would be enough but I am running into memory errors more often than I would like. I admittedly open maybe 7-12 appvms so the obvious answer to my prob might be open less appvms but for my workflow that

[qubes-users] Re: Connecting to WiFi?

2017-05-20 Thread pchilstrm
Update: I ran a an update on the Dom0, restarted Qubes, and now I have Network Manager available in the systray. Everything seems to be good now. Huge thanks to the Qubes developers. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To

[qubes-users] Wifi not reconnecting after sleep

2017-05-20 Thread Dominique St-Pierre Boucher
Hello Qubes users Everything was working fine until updates were installed a couples of week back. I was unable to get wifi access back after a sleep. My sys-net vm use a minimal debian stretch template and I never had a sleep issue before. I have included part of the syslog after the sleep. I

Re: [qubes-users] Not using firewall rules correctly?

2017-05-20 Thread Gaiko
On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 at 9:53:30 PM UTC-4, cooloutac wrote: > On Monday, May 1, 2017 at 10:53:04 PM UTC-4, Gaiko wrote: > > On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 10:47 PM, Gaiko Kyofusho > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Unman wrote: >

Re: [qubes-users] Not using firewall rules correctly?

2017-05-20 Thread Gaiko
On Tuesday, May 2, 2017 at 1:03:18 AM UTC-4, Drew White wrote: > On Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:53:04 UTC+10, Gaiko wrote: > > On Mon, May 1, 2017 at 10:47 PM, Gaiko Kyofusho > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 6:45 PM, Unman wrote: > >

[qubes-users] Qubes 4.0 system requirements

2017-05-20 Thread Vít Šesták
I doubt it will be easy. In theory, you casn patch it and get something between Qubes 3 and Qubes 4, but I am not sure about its complexity. Qubes switches from PVs to HVMs in Qubes 4. This unfortunately adds some hardware requirements. While most today CPUs have VT-x and EPT (or AMD