Re: [qubes-users] Hyperthreading is turned off by Qubes

2019-12-27 Thread Sandy Harris
'Ilpo Järvinen' via qubes-users wrote: > > Is it possible to get Xen in Qubes to enable hyperthreading? ... > > Are there any obvs pitfalls or technical issues to explain why Xen turns > > it off? > > Yes, HT is turned off intentionally for security purposes. Some of the > Intel CPU

Re: [qubes-users] sys-net interfaces

2019-12-27 Thread tetrahedra via qubes-users
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 08:46:35AM +, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: What responsibilties does sys-net have in terms of forwarding DNS? The documentation specifies how things work for AppVMs, and it says there is no DNS server in the "network driver domain" (sys-net), but it does not say

Re: [qubes-users] Hyperthreading is turned off by Qubes

2019-12-27 Thread 'Ilpo Järvinen' via qubes-users
On Fri, 27 Dec 2019, trueriver wrote: > Running a new install of Qubes r4.0.1 on an ultrabook based on the > m5-6Y54 processor / SOC. Xentop shows it as having only 2 cores. > > When the same machine boots into Debian on bare metal, with no BIOS > changes, top shows it as having four. > >

[qubes-users] Hyperthreading is turned off by Qubes

2019-12-27 Thread trueriver
Running a new install of Qubes r4.0.1 on an ultrabook based on the m5-6Y54 processor / SOC. Xentop shows it as having only 2 cores. When the same machine boots into Debian on bare metal, with no BIOS changes, top shows it as having four. The Intel spec is 2 cores running 4 threads, so the

Re: [qubes-users] Syncing clock with ntp

2019-12-27 Thread dhorf-hfref . 4a288f10
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 11:51:25AM -0800, John Maher wrote: > understanding is that the ClockVM, which is usually sys-net, runs ntp and > and communicates the time to dom0, which communicates the time to all of > the other VMs. actualy in qubes4 dom0+appvms "fetch" the time from clockvm, though

[qubes-users] Syncing clock with ntp

2019-12-27 Thread John Maher
I have always had a problem with my system clock losing time. My understanding is that the ClockVM, which is usually sys-net, runs ntp and and communicates the time to dom0, which communicates the time to all of the other VMs. I don't know exactly what makes sys-net the ClockVM, but I noticed

[qubes-users] Backup issues with external USB and ESATA devices

2019-12-27 Thread Charles Peters
In late September I backed up qubes using a new WD Elements external drive. At the time I don't think I had sys-usb installed. Yesterday when I tried to do the backups I was unable to mount the WD Elements drive, another USB connected Toshiba hard drive, or the Toshiba drive connected with

Re: [qubes-users] Installer crash: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (Dell XPS 7390)

2019-12-27 Thread Aaron Janse
On Friday, December 27, 2019 at 12:41:35 AM UTC-8, awokd wrote: > > See if you can turn off the HPET timer in your UEFI config, and include > that "apic_verbosity=debug" option. That might make more combinations > available to Xen and provide more detail. > I wasn't sure where to put the

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes/Xen doesn't comply with IOMMU grouping rules for PCI passthru

2019-12-27 Thread Claudia
December 26, 2019 12:59 PM, "awokd' via qubes-users" wrote: > Claudia: > > TLDR; check bottom of https://community.amd.com/thread/241650, looks > like there was a recently released related updated. Not sure if > applicable to your situation. Thanks for the link! I'm not sure if it affects me

Re: [qubes-users] Ghost in the machine?

2019-12-27 Thread 'Chökie Gyaltsen' via qubes-users
Thank you very much Awokd, below the answers in bold Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ On Friday, December 27, 2019 8:30 AM, 'awokd' via qubes-users qubes-users@googlegroups.com wrote: > 'Chökie Gyaltsen' via qubes-users: > > > Thank you very much for your

[qubes-users] No HDMI on lenovo laptop

2019-12-27 Thread indigo . 7041
Hallo Dane Would you be so kind and explain how did you manage to boot with your laptop. I have exactly the same model. Nvidia 1650 6gb. I tried to install qubes many time but same problem over and over. Black screen after install. Whats about GPU pass? Can you play any Steam game? Wrong

Re: [qubes-users] HOWTO: Enable screen poweroff (instead of blanking)

2019-12-27 Thread Claudia
December 27, 2019 11:32 AM, dhorf-hfref.4a288...@hashmail.org wrote: > On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 02:45:34PM +, Claudia wrote: > >> overrides the XFCE Power Manager settings. Xscreensaver is only >> configured to blank the screen; I'm not sure if it even supports >> powering it off. To return

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Qubes/Xen doesn't comply with IOMMU grouping rules for PCI passthru

2019-12-27 Thread Claudia
December 27, 2019 11:37 AM, "John Mitchell" wrote: > "This can especially be the case with consumer class machines such as Ryzen." > I had to lol about this since I have had many Intel systems with one problem > or another and this is > certainly not isolated to Ryzen. I am also running a Ryzen

[qubes-users] Re: Qubes/Xen doesn't comply with IOMMU grouping rules for PCI passthru

2019-12-27 Thread John Mitchell
"This can especially be the case with consumer class machines such as Ryzen." I had to lol about this since I have had many Intel systems with one problem or another and this is certainly not isolated to Ryzen. I am also running a Ryzen system running three VMs with PCI-passthrough on one of

Re: [qubes-users] HOWTO: Enable screen poweroff (instead of blanking)

2019-12-27 Thread dhorf-hfref . 4a288f10
On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 02:45:34PM +, Claudia wrote: > overrides the XFCE Power Manager settings. Xscreensaver is only > configured to blank the screen; I'm not sure if it even supports > powering it off. To return control to XFCE, go to Menu > System Tools it does, and it works (for me).

Re: [qubes-users] how to install or use pm-suspend similar command on Qubes

2019-12-27 Thread Claudia
December 27, 2019 8:35 AM, "awokd' via qubes-users" wrote: > Guerlan: > >> I'm following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspend to debug >> kernel suspend problems. However, on dom0 there's no pm-suspend command. >> >> How can I install SECURELY this command or how to substitute for

Re: [qubes-users] Troubleshooting Qubes graphical slowness

2019-12-27 Thread tetrahedra via qubes-users
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 09:57:16AM +0100, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote: Unfortunately I need to get work done so have to reboot to "just make it go away" but I am still interested in troubleshooting ideas (for when it happens next). One thing I noticed on reboot -- the initial round of

Re: [qubes-users] Troubleshooting Qubes graphical slowness

2019-12-27 Thread tetrahedra via qubes-users
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 08:49:02AM +, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: Further inspection shows there's a LOT of disk I/O going on. after installing iotop in dom0, this appears to be coming from command [NN.xvda-0], presumably one of the VMs. How do I map the NN (number) to a given running

Re: [qubes-users] Troubleshooting Qubes graphical slowness

2019-12-27 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
tetrahedra via qubes-users: > On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 09:05:52AM +0100, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 08:33:10AM +0100, tetrahedra via qubes-users >> wrote: >>> Periodically all graphics-heavy apps (Firefox, ...) in all VMs seem to >>> slow down simultaneously.

Re: [qubes-users] sys-net interfaces

2019-12-27 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
tetrahedra via qubes-users: > On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 11:47:37AM +, 'awokd' via qubes-users wrote: >> There's a brief discussion at https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/networking/, >> but there may be more detailed notes in the source code for Qubes' VM >> networking components. Qubes uses Xen's

Re: [qubes-users] Installer crash: IO-APIC + timer doesn't work (Dell XPS 7390)

2019-12-27 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
Aaron Janse: > On Thursday, December 26, 2019 at 5:31:50 AM UTC-8, awokd wrote: > >> What happens if you use an options line like the following? >> >> options=console=vga loglvl=all efi=no-rs >> > > ``` > (XEN) Platform timer is 23.999MHz HPET > (XEN) [...] > (XEN) CPU0: No irq handler for

Re: [qubes-users] how to install or use pm-suspend similar command on Qubes

2019-12-27 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
Guerlan: > I'm following https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspend to debug > kernel suspend problems. However, on dom0 there's no pm-suspend command. > > How can I install SECURELY this command or how to substitute for another > one? > > This is the command: > > sudo sh -c "sync &&

Re: [qubes-users] Troubleshooting Qubes graphical slowness

2019-12-27 Thread tetrahedra via qubes-users
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 09:05:52AM +0100, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote: On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 08:33:10AM +0100, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote: Periodically all graphics-heavy apps (Firefox, ...) in all VMs seem to slow down simultaneously. Rebooting fixes the situation. Running `sudo

Re: [qubes-users] Ghost in the machine?

2019-12-27 Thread 'awokd' via qubes-users
'Chökie Gyaltsen' via qubes-users: > Thank you very much for your answers, my replies in bold below. > > Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email. > > ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ > On Thursday, December 26, 2019 2:03 PM, 'awokd' via qubes-users > qubes-users@googlegroups.com wrote: > >> 'Chökie

Re: [qubes-users] Troubleshooting Qubes graphical slowness

2019-12-27 Thread tetrahedra via qubes-users
On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 08:33:10AM +0100, tetrahedra via qubes-users wrote: Periodically all graphics-heavy apps (Firefox, ...) in all VMs seem to slow down simultaneously. Rebooting fixes the situation. Running `sudo journalctl -f` in dom0 doesn't show anything unusual. What would you suggest