[qubes-users] Re: Is Qubes effected by the Intel kernel memory leaking bug?

2018-01-04 Thread stephenatverdi
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 09:56:44 UTC+1, stephen...@gmail.com wrote: > On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 12:55:54 UTC+1, stephen...@gmail.com wrote: > > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ > > > >

[qubes-users] How do I install and configure a template vm in Qubes 4?

2018-01-04 Thread 'Ahmed Al Aqtash' via qubes-users
Hello all! I have recently installed Qubes 4 RC3 (I used Qubes 3.2, but when I switched laptops the installer was outdated, and I was forced to use something else..) In 3.2 you could allow network access in a template rather easily through the GUI, and thus be able to pull software from other

[qubes-users] Re: Is Qubes effected by the Intel kernel memory leaking bug?

2018-01-04 Thread stephenatverdi
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 12:55:54 UTC+1, stephen...@gmail.com wrote: > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ > > http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table > > It seems as if Linux countermeasures will involve a

[qubes-users] Re: Is Qubes effected by the Intel kernel memory leaking bug?

2018-01-04 Thread stephenatverdi
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 12:55:54 UTC+1, stephen...@gmail.com wrote: > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ > > http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table > > It seems as if Linux countermeasures will involve a

[qubes-users] XSA-253 does not affect the security of Qubes OS

2018-01-04 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dear Qubes Community, The Xen Project has published Xen Security Advisory 253 (XSA-253). This XSA does *not* affect the security of Qubes OS, and no user action is necessary. This XSA has been added to the XSA Tracker:

Re: [qubes-users] Tweak Tool not working as expected after upgrade to Fedora 26

2018-01-04 Thread 'Tom Zander' via qubes-users
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:11:16 GMT Mark Malcom wrote: > I downloaded fedora-26 template and after that my gnome-tweak-tool is > completely ignored: no themes, no windows scaling anymore. Not just the > Tweak Tool, but if I try to change the scale factor with gnomesettings, > that is also

Re: [qubes-users] Is Qubes effected by the Intel kernel memory leaking bug?

2018-01-04 Thread rysiek
Dnia Thursday, January 4, 2018 9:33:04 AM CET Andrew David Wong pisze: > We've just published an announcement about this: > > https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2018/01/04/xsa-254-meltdown-spectre/ Thank you, much appreciated. Good luck to the whole team in dealing with this. -- Pozdrawiam, Michał

Re: [qubes-users] Is Qubes effected by the Intel kernel memory leaking bug?

2018-01-04 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2018-01-03 05:55, stephenatve...@gmail.com wrote: > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ > > http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table > > It seems as if Linux

Re: [qubes-users] specter, meltdown, and dom0

2018-01-04 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2018-01-03 18:01, pixel fairy wrote: > Since someone has to start this thread, > > Does dom0 matter here, or would patching xen fix this? > We've just published an announcement about this:

Re: [qubes-users] Re: new Desktop build recommendation

2018-01-04 Thread Wael M. Nasreddine
I read a bit more on M/B connectors and https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817153218=1 has one EPS (8 pin) and one ATX (8 pin as well), so it's all good. Taiidan, what GPU do you use? The board has only a VGA, which is OK for setting it up, but I want to run a 1080p widescreen

[qubes-users] Donations with Bitcoin (Cash) - BCH

2018-01-04 Thread evastar
Happy New Year Qubes Community! Due to high fees and heavy losses to donator at Bitcoin Core (BTC) network I suggest to at Bitcoin Cash (BCH) donation address as alternative. Nobody want to donate 50$ and lose 40$ as fees. Also it's not possible with current Core address to donate low amount

Re: [qubes-users] Is Qubes effected by the Intel kernel memory leaking bug?

2018-01-04 Thread evastar
3.2 affected? When patch will be available? :( -- 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,

[qubes-users] Netowork Manager not running (minimal VM)

2018-01-04 Thread Fabrizio Romano Genovese
I am trying to set up a sys-net based on fedora-26-minimal. I installed all the suggested packages in https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/fedora-minimal/ When I start sys-net I can see the network-manager applet, but if I click on it it says "NetworkManager is not running..." If I manually

[qubes-users] Qubes 4.0 rc3 boot and performance is quite slow

2018-01-04 Thread Fabrizio Romano Genovese
As the title says, Qubes 4.0rc3 boot is very slow compared to Qubes 3.2. Looking at the console messages at startup, it looks like the problem is that Qubes takes more than one minute to boot sys-net, sys-firewall, sys-usb and sys-whonix. That was not the case in 3.2. Also, when giving

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 4rc3: More space needed on the / filesystem.

2018-01-04 Thread Fabrizio Romano Genovese
> On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 16:16:13 GMT Fabrizio Romano Genovese wrote: > > I am trying to install texlive on a fedora-26 template vm. The package is > > quite big, nevertheless it is correctly downloaded. After this, when the > > actual installation process would be supposed to start, it

Re: [qubes-users] Donations with Bitcoin (Cash) - BCH

2018-01-04 Thread 'Tom Zander' via qubes-users
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 12:28:27 GMT evas...@openmailbox.org wrote: > Happy New Year Qubes Community! > > Due to high fees and heavy losses to donator at Bitcoin Core (BTC) network > I suggest to at Bitcoin Cash (BCH) donation address as alternative. > Nobody want to donate 50$ and lose 40$

Re: [qubes-users] Is Qubes effected by the Intel kernel memory leaking bug?

2018-01-04 Thread stephenatverdi
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 13:39:46 UTC+1, eva...@openmailbox.org wrote: > 3.2 affected? When patch will be available? :( My impression is that 3.2 isn't being patched pending 4.0, but I could be wrong there. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [qubes-users] How do I install and configure a template vm in Qubes 4?

2018-01-04 Thread aaq via qubes-users
> The same functionality is present in Qubes4, just not via a GUI. > > open a terminal in dom0 (adminvm) and type; > > qvm-prefs -s YOURVMNAME netvm sys-firewall > > When you are done downloading consider unsetting the netvm with; > qvm-prefs -s YOURVMNAME netvm "" I thought so, I just can't

Re: [qubes-users] Tweak Tool not working as expected after upgrade to Fedora 26

2018-01-04 Thread Markus Kilås
On 01/04/2018 03:11 AM, Mark Malcom wrote: > Well guys, just trying to see if anyone is facing the same issue here: > > I downloaded fedora-26 template and after that my gnome-tweak-tool is > completely ignored: no themes, no windows scaling anymore. Not just the Tweak > Tool, but if I try to

Re: [qubes-users] Netowork Manager not running (minimal VM)

2018-01-04 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
On Thu, January 4, 2018 11:46 am, Fabrizio Romano Genovese wrote: > I suspect there is some service that needs to be started when the VM > boots that I haven't specified, but I don't know how to proceed. Try adding NetworkManager to the Services tab on your sys-net VM? -- You received this

Re: [qubes-users] Donations with Bitcoin (Cash) - BCH

2018-01-04 Thread piotrpm7
W dniu czwartek, 4 stycznia 2018 13:31:30 UTC+1 użytkownik eva...@openmailbox.org napisał: > Due to high fees and heavy losses to donator at Bitcoin Core (BTC) network I > suggest to at Bitcoin Cash (BCH) donation address as alternative. > Nobody want to donate 50$ and lose 40$ as fees. I

Re: [qubes-users] Is Qubes effected by the Intel kernel memory leaking bug?

2018-01-04 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
On Thu, January 4, 2018 1:28 am, awokd wrote: > On Thu, January 4, 2018 12:03 am, rysiek wrote: > > >> And here we are: >> https://security.googleblog.com/2018/01/todays-cpu-vulnerability-what-yo >> u- need.html >> https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.pt/2018/01/reading-privileged-memory >> -w >>

Re: [qubes-users] Donations with Bitcoin (Cash) - BCH

2018-01-04 Thread evastar
> I want to also add that the current address publicly displayed will work > just fine on Bitcoin Cash, which may be useful to know. POSSIBLE: NOT I'm not sure that it's possible to use current Qubes address with the same private keys at Bitcoin Cash (BCH) network. I guess that this 700 is

[qubes-users] Re: Is Qubes effected by the Intel kernel memory leaking bug?

2018-01-04 Thread stephenatverdi
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 12:55:54 UTC+1, stephen...@gmail.com wrote: > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ > > http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table > > It seems as if Linux countermeasures will involve a

Re: [qubes-users] Donations with Bitcoin (Cash) - BCH

2018-01-04 Thread John Doe
Bitcoin cash (BCASH) is a scam, I'm sure Qubes devs are smart enough to see that. And please, use the full name "Bitcoin Cash" or the shortname "BCASH" when you are referring to that altcoin or you may confuse the casual reader. J. On 01/04/2018 02:33 PM, evas...@openmailbox.org wrote:

Re: [qubes-users] Is Qubes effected by the Intel kernel memory leaking bug?

2018-01-04 Thread Holger Levsen
On Thu, Jan 04, 2018 at 05:40:27AM -0800, stephenatve...@gmail.com wrote: > On Thursday, 4 January 2018 13:39:46 UTC+1, eva...@openmailbox.org wrote: > > 3.2 affected? When patch will be available? :( > My impression is that 3.2 isn't being patched pending 4.0, but I could be > wrong there. you

Re: [qubes-users] How do I install and configure a template vm in Qubes 4?

2018-01-04 Thread 'Tom Zander' via qubes-users
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 10:40:56 GMT 'Ahmed Al Aqtash' via qubes-users wrote: > In 3.2 you could allow network access in a template rather easily through > the GUI, and thus be able to pull software from other destinations than > just repos. The same functionality is present in Qubes4, just

[qubes-users] Re: Is Qubes effected by the Intel kernel memory leaking bug?

2018-01-04 Thread stephenatverdi
On Wednesday, 3 January 2018 12:55:54 UTC+1, stephen...@gmail.com wrote: > https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/02/intel_cpu_design_flaw/ > > http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-mysterious-case-of-the-linux-page-table > > It seems as if Linux countermeasures will involve a

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 4.0 rc3 boot and performance is quite slow

2018-01-04 Thread 'Tom Zander' via qubes-users
On Thursday, 4 January 2018 11:49:45 GMT Fabrizio Romano Genovese wrote: > Looking at the console messages at startup, it looks like the problem is > that Qubes takes more than one minute to boot sys-net, sys-firewall, > sys-usb and sys-whonix. That was not the case in 3.2. > > Also, when giving

[qubes-users] Announcement regarding the Meltdown and Spectre attacks

2018-01-04 Thread Andrew David Wong
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dear Qubes Community, The Qubes Security Team is currently investigating the extent to which [XSA-254] (and the [Meltdown] and [Spectre] attacks more generally) affect the security of Qubes OS. The practical impact of these attacks on Qubes is