Re: [qubes-users] Move Firefox Bookmarks between AppVMs - Help with Script

2018-05-06 Thread Stuart Perkins
I would accomplish bookmarks within disposable vm by... Create an exported tar file of a profile, including the control file for firefox which defines the default profile. Start the disposable vm for terminal. qvm-copy-to-vm the tar file extract tar run script start firefox It would be a little

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Cannot get installer to load, Help and advice welcomed (semi-noob here).

2018-05-14 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sun, 13 May 2018 20:05:48 -1000 john wrote: >On 05/13/18 19:13, cangent05-re5jqeeqqe8avxtiumw...@public.gmane.org wrote: >> Thank you, it worked. I strongly suggest Qubes staff add these two points on >> their website. Perhaps, the second one (enable VT-x etc.) is

[qubes-users] Fedora-27 Template Issues, Qubes 3.2

2018-05-24 Thread Stuart Perkins
Now that the Fedora 27 template is available, I downloaded and installed it without issue. Modifying sys-net and sys-firewall to use it fails miserably though..no network connectivity. Anybody else get this? Qubes OS 3.2, Thinkpad T520... Stuart -- You received this message because you

Re: [qubes-users] Connect sys-usb to network

2018-05-01 Thread Stuart Perkins
Assign the USB device to your untrusted appvm. Open a qvm terminal... qvm-usb -l to list the usb things... qvm-usb -a untrusted sys-usb:2-1.6 <===identify the one from the -l which is your card when done, use... qvm-usb -d sys-usb:2-1.6 to disconnect it from the appVM. This should give

Re: [qubes-users] Difference between Whonix Workstation and Debian/Fedora?

2018-05-03 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Thu, 3 May 2018 05:51:01 -0700 (PDT) "Daniil .Travnikov" wrote: >Thank you very much for your clarify about Whonix-Workstation. Now I >understand how it is working much better. > > >> 3. Use regular firefox in a debian/fedora based appVM connected to >> sys-whonix (no

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Remote Control Question

2018-04-30 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sun, 29 Apr 2018 10:39:21 -0400 Ed <e...@edjusted.com> wrote: >On 04/28/2018 08:50 PM, Stuart Perkins wrote: >> Hi list. >> >> I'm considering setting up Qubes capable server at my home. What I need, >> however, is to be able to remotely control it. Updat

[qubes-users] Remote Control Question

2018-04-28 Thread Stuart Perkins
Hi list. I'm considering setting up Qubes capable server at my home. What I need, however, is to be able to remotely control it. Updates...reboot/stop/start system and app vm's etc. Is this even possible with Qubes? I currently run a Ubuntu powered old laptop as a "server" and have it

Re: Fedora updates break appvms and templates (Re: [qubes-users] Deleted Pulseaudio from dom0 and broke every VM)

2018-08-02 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 12:42:17 -0500 Stuart Perkins wrote: >On Tue, 31 Jul 2018 11:29:01 -0400 >Steve Coleman wrote: > >>On 07/31/18 07:41, cubit wrote: >>> 31. Jul 2018 11:16 by cu...@tutanota.com <mailto:cu...@tutanota.com>: >>&g

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Updating Fedora 27 errors in Qubes 4.0?

2018-08-01 Thread Stuart Perkins
What I did was in a command window on the template...Qubes 3.2 sudo dnf upgrade --allowerasing --best and note the modules removed. Then I installed the modules in the same window... sudo dnf install puleaudio (I forget their exact names right now, but there were two) This appears to

Re: [qubes-users] qubes in doctors office as server for clients?

2018-08-06 Thread Stuart Perkins
The security model of Qubes may not be what you want for a "server" primarily due to the relative inaccessibility of an appVM from "outside". On Mon, 6 Aug 2018 20:27:39 +0200 evo wrote: >Hey! > >Does it make sense to install qubes OS as the server for the doctors >office and connect clients

Re: [qubes-users] New here. New to Qubes. Swap and tmp question on VM's

2018-04-05 Thread Stuart Perkins
Thanks Ivan. I got /tmp increased. Working on swap now. With Qubes 3.2, swap on a VM is xvdc1, so it is a mounted image from the main system. I just need to figure out what/where that is so I can bump it up a bit...or take the VM controlled approach you call "ugly". :) On Thu, 5 Apr 2018

Re: [qubes-users] Re: USB Device Question

2018-04-16 Thread Stuart Perkins
ted at all. It shows up under file manager as a network location though. How would I tell rsync to reference it as a network location? On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 06:43:17 -0700 (PDT) cooloutac <raahe...@gmail.com> wrote: >On Sunday, April 15, 2018 at 3:34:25 PM UTC-4, Stuart Perkins wrote: >

[qubes-users] USB Device Question

2018-04-15 Thread Stuart Perkins
I have the following setup: Qubes 3.2, xfce4 interface sys-usb I want to be able to connect my Android phone to a vm and rsync its contents. I can connect the phone and "qvm-usb -a" it to the VM, and it appears available under the File Manager application as "mtp://[usb:002,004]/" but I

Re: [qubes-users] USB Device Question

2018-04-19 Thread Stuart Perkins
2018 16:38:43 +0100 Mike Keehan <m...@keehan.net> wrote: >On Sun, 15 Apr 2018 15:34:20 -0400 >Stuart Perkins <perkins.stu...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I have the following setup: >> >> Qubes 3.2, xfce4 interface >> sys-usb >> >> I want to

Re: [qubes-users] USB Device Question

2018-04-20 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Thu, 19 Apr 2018 22:14:08 +0300 Ivan Mitev <i...@maa.bz> wrote: >On 04/19/2018 08:39 PM, Stuart Perkins wrote: >> PITA. I used to be able to mount this very phone as a USB drive and RSYNC >> it for backup. I can still drag and drop with the file manager, but I have

Re: [qubes-users] To use Windows 7 OEM as a Qubes VM; which hardware metadata is needed?

2018-04-24 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Tue, 24 Apr 2018 18:28:19 +0200 Teqleez Motley wrote: >(Btw, I do of course have the license key, and I am NOT going to use that VM >online, so I do hopefully not need security updates or the like.) > > >Regards, >Teqleez > In that case, I would consider pulling

Re: [qubes-users] To use Windows 7 OEM as a Qubes VM; which hardware metadata is needed?

2018-04-25 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Wed, 25 Apr 2018 09:05:59 +0200 Teqleez Motley <teqleez.gmx@motley.cloud> wrote: >On Tue, Apr 24, 2018, at 18:40, Stuart Perkins wrote: >> In that case, I would consider pulling the hard drive and using usb >> adapter to access the information without concern for batte

Re: [qubes-users] USB Device Question

2018-04-19 Thread Stuart Perkins
> >maybe you'll have better luck with simple-mtpfs > >from the package's info: > >SIMPLE-MTPFS (Simple Media Transfer Protocol FileSystem) is a file >system for Linux (and other operating systems with a FUSE >implementation, such as Mac OS X or FreeBSD) capable of operating on >files on MTP

Re: [qubes-users] My touchpad and mouse didn't work

2018-10-14 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sat, 13 Oct 2018 13:13:58 -0700 (PDT) Máté Kovács wrote: >Hi >Somehow I turned off my touchpad in Qubes, and it get stucked in the middle of >the screen. >How can I navigate myself to dom0 console with my notebook's keyboard? > For a command line console, ctl-alt-F2 (or F3,4,5,6,7) and

Re: [qubes-users] Installation Problem

2018-10-30 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:32:41 -0400 Andy Powell wrote: >Well that clears it up! Thanks!!! > >Very surprising...guess I’ll go to another distro. Bye Qubes! > >> On Oct 29, 2018, at 2:51 PM, Fidel Ramos wrote: >> >> ‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ >>> On Monday, October 29, 2018 6:20 PM,

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Qubes 3.2: No Internet Connection, neither with Wi-Fi, neither with Ethernet. HELP PLEASE!

2018-11-09 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Fri, 9 Nov 2018 10:45:06 -0500 LMiller M <56lmil...@gmail.com> wrote: >Ok back with the laptop. During boot up, dom0 green state, sys-net green >state. WiFi connection good, and can reboot! Lol > >But with that said nothing else auto loads. I have to start fedora-26 and >it will. > >When

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Removing KDE

2018-11-14 Thread Stuart Perkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:49:51 +0100 donoban wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA256 > >On 11/12/18 1:03 AM, unman wrote:> Though why you would want to remove >Plasma? So easy to configure and >> customize, and really enhances

Re: [qubes-users] [Qubes-4.0] Vanishing Packages on TemplateVMs

2018-10-10 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Wed, 10 Oct 2018 19:14:01 + "'Modprobe' via qubes-users" wrote: >** General intro stuff, not terribly important, tl;dr as appropriate ** >Hi, all! Qubes newbie here; I installed Qubes on my new laptop just to see >what happens and now I'm bumbling my way along, using it and reading

Re: [qubes-users] Enabling OpenVPN auto start

2018-09-26 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Wed, 26 Sep 2018 00:24:29 -0500 Stuart Perkins wrote: >On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:34:12 -0400 >Chris Laprise wrote: > >>On 09/25/2018 05:27 PM, Stuart Perkins wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:52:16 -0700 (PDT) >>> Ninja-mania via qubes-users

Re: [qubes-users] Enabling OpenVPN auto start

2018-09-25 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:52:16 -0700 (PDT) Ninja-mania via qubes-users wrote: >Dude I actually love you (no homo). > >Spent 20+ trying to set vpn up (Big ass noob) and never came across the Qubes >tunnel. It’s awesome. You’re awesome. > I have two separate VPN's on my Qubes 3.2 laptop. One

Re: [qubes-users] Enabling OpenVPN auto start

2018-09-25 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:34:12 -0400 Chris Laprise wrote: >On 09/25/2018 05:27 PM, Stuart Perkins wrote: >> >> On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 12:52:16 -0700 (PDT) >> Ninja-mania via qubes-users wrote: >> >>> Dude I actually love you (no homo). >>> >

Re: [qubes-users] A few tips on installing Qubes 4.0

2018-09-23 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Mon, 24 Sep 2018 02:30:50 + "'William Pate' via qubes-users" wrote: >‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐ >On Sunday, September 23, 2018 8:56 PM, Patrick >wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I had already istalled 4.0 on my laptop and decided to upgrade a workhorse >> desktop running 3.0. So I just

Re: [qubes-users] qvm-restart

2019-01-05 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sat, 5 Jan 2019 15:43:25 +0100 haaber wrote: >> On 1/5/19 1:13 AM, 799 wrote: >>> >>> The restart-function is available in the right-click-menue of a vm in >>> the Qube Manager. Could this also be provided for the CLI as a >>> "qvm-restart" command? >>> >>> You can easily

Re: [qubes-users] Re: fed29 templates/upgrade

2019-01-05 Thread Stuart Perkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 21:00:56 -0600 Andrew David Wong wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA512 > >On 1/4/19 1:13 PM, John S.Recdep wrote: >> On 1/4/19 1:37 AM, Andrew David Wong wrote: >>> On 1/3/19 11:31 PM, John S.Recdep wrote:

[qubes-users] Custom Indicator

2018-12-06 Thread Stuart Perkins
List. I'm using Qubes 3.2/XFCE4 and I want to add an indicator to show a status based on the contents of a file in dom0. I can set the contents of the file to 1 or 0, Yes or No, etc...from the vm where I am running a VPN connection. I want the panel to indicate if I am running the VPN

Re: [qubes-users] [R4.0] CPU Freq Scaling, or "Why am I stuck at 2.1 Ghz?"

2018-12-09 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sun, 9 Dec 2018 17:13:54 + Mike Keehan wrote: >On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 15:54:17 -0800 (PST) >Eric Duncan wrote: > >> Finally received my new Thinkpad X1 Yoga 3rd gen. >> >> i7-8650U up to 4.2 Ghz Turbo >> >> How can I debug/check that my CPU governor/frequency is scaling >> correcting

Re: [qubes-users] Confidential email from fludalt

2018-11-23 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Fri, 23 Nov 2018 16:52:57 +0100 (CET) wrote: >Hello, > >You have just received a confidential email via Tutanota >(https://tutanota.com). Tutanota encrypts emails automatically end-to-end, >including all attachments. You can reach your encrypted mailbox and also reply >with an encrypted

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Qube max storage size

2019-01-07 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sun, 6 Jan 2019 07:41:35 -0800 (PST) Plex wrote: >On Sunday, January 6, 2019 at 3:20:08 PM UTC, Plex wrote: >> Is there a technical limitation/reason why a qube private max storage size >> can only go to 1048576MiB in qube manager? Is this a limitation with the >> qube itself or qube

Re: [qubes-users] old version of xscreensaver

2019-01-04 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 09:24:50 +0100 haaber wrote: >> On 01/03/2019 06:03 PM, Frédéric Pierret wrote: >>> We built the upstream package of xscreensaver in current-testing for >>> both Qubes 3.2 and 4.0. >>> >>> Welcome back to XFCE Chris :D ! >> >> LOL, seriously? >> >> The XFCE deficits

Re: [qubes-users] Help setting up a expressvpn proxy VM

2019-01-03 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 22:28:25 +0100 799 wrote: >Hello, > >I'm trying to setup ExpressVPN with Qubes. >In their howto the suggestion is to install the Expressway Client in the >sys-net VM. >But I'd like to use an own AppVM so that I am more flexible and I can >choose that only certain AppVM will

Re: [qubes-users] Help setting up a expressvpn proxy VM

2019-01-03 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 19:24:31 +0100 799 wrote: >Hello Stuart, > >On Thu, 3 Jan 2019 at 15:36, Stuart Perkins >wrote: > >> [...] >> have an appVM which I use to connect via openconnect to a client's Cisco >> VPN. I installed the openconnect connection in

Re: [qubes-users] wifi password storage

2018-09-12 Thread Stuart Perkins
I would do this without a separate network device. Create a clone of a clean (no saved passwords) sys-net. First set sys-net and sys-firewall to NOT autostart. Starting an appVM which uses them will start them first anyway. Create a shutdown script which... stop all appVMs stop

Re: [qubes-users] New to Qubes having issues logging into my vpn service despite following the Qubes instructions

2018-09-16 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 12:30:47 +0100 unman wrote: >On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 08:21:53PM -0700, Wolf moon wrote: >> Hi guys New to Qubes ( which is an amazing feat of cyber security >> engineering ) all working fine and learning my way around it. >> >> My only issue is logging into my vpn

[qubes-users] Qubes 3.2 Whonix-14?

2018-09-13 Thread Stuart Perkins
I deleted the whonix vms and went to install whonix-14 and it won't work. The salt command continues to say that the community repo is unknown. What am I missing? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group

Re: [qubes-users] Re: New to Qubes having issues logging into my vpn service despite following the Qubes instructions

2018-09-18 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Tue, 18 Sep 2018 10:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Wolf moon wrote: >On Tuesday, 18 September 2018 10:46:44 UTC+1, Антон Чехов wrote: >> On Tuesday, September 18, 2018 at 10:37:06 AM UTC+2, Wolf moon wrote: >> > On Saturday, 15 September 2018 04:21:53 UTC+1, Wolf moon wrote: >> > > Hi guys New to

Re: [qubes-users] Installed software gets remove after reboot

2018-09-17 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sun, 16 Sep 2018 23:47:08 -0700 (PDT) Hugo Costa wrote: >Hey, > >I couldn't find the answer to this problem that has been annoying me for a >while. Basically, Qubes 4.0, fedora 28 and PVH qubes. >Problem is simple. I install something in qube X, I reboot my machine and it's >not there

Re: [qubes-users] wifi password storage

2018-09-13 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 22:16:01 - "awokd" wrote: >On Wed, September 12, 2018 8:39 pm, Chris Laprise wrote: > >> Another alternative would be to configure a single sys-net with either >> dispVM or Qubes-VM-hardening so that neither passwords nor malware would be >> retained when sys-net is

Re: [qubes-users] looking for quickest way to copy text from dom0-Terminal to another VM

2019-01-26 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sat, 26 Jan 2019 01:01:44 +0100 haaber wrote: >On 1/25/19 9:04 PM, gone wrote: >> 1st of all, I have read this: >> https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/copy-from-dom0/ >> >> Maybe I just draw a mental blank but I can't find a really >> quick way to copy text (not files) from dom0-Terminal to >>

Re: [qubes-users] QSB #46: APT update mechanism vulnerability

2019-01-28 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 16:47:08 +0100 (CET) wrote: >Jan 27, 2019, 5:04 PM by alexandre.belgr...@mailbox.org: > >> Le dimanche 27 janvier 2019 à 16:47 +, unman a écrit : >> >>> I'd be interested to know what system has been graced with your >>> approval. >>> If you believe all this, then

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Best ideal laptop for Qubes?

2019-02-24 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 05:35:20 -0800 (PST) nosugarmaxta...@gmail.com wrote: >On Thursday, 21 February 2019 11:49:27 UTC+11, dexint...@gmail.com wrote: >> I've been spending hours and hours looking at laptop configs from dell to >> lenovo and I still have yet to make a decision. I'm hoping you

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Best ideal laptop for Qubes?

2019-02-24 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sun, 24 Feb 2019 00:39:56 -0800 (PST) nosugarmaxta...@gmail.com wrote: >On Sunday, 24 February 2019 03:44:51 UTC+11, 799 wrote: >> schrieb am Sa., 23. Feb. 2019, 14:35: >> >> >> Not quite sure why people try use Qubes with laptops. I found far better >> performance on desktops. Laptops

Re: [qubes-users] Best practices?

2019-02-26 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 03:59:18 + "'awokd' via qubes-users" wrote: >dexinthec...@gmail.com: >> Just recently installed Qubes being new to Linux altogether I haven’t quiet >> developed my own best practices and the documentation online has a pretty >> steep learning curve. Anyway I was

Re: [qubes-users] How to connect to usb tethering of my mobile to sys-net qube

2019-02-21 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Thu, 21 Feb 2019 05:25:52 -0800 (PST) acharya.sagar.sag...@gmail.com wrote: >I don't have a sys-usb. If I assign my usbs to sys-usb, then how will the net >VM have access to it? >Also according to Joanna here, networking stacks lie in NetVM

Re: [qubes-users] Re: backup of files in a qube without networking to an internet service

2019-02-21 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 15:53:49 -0500 Chris Laprise wrote: >On 2/20/19 2:46 PM, Stuart Perkins wrote: >> >> >> On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:38:15 + >> lik...@gmx.de wrote: >> >>> On 2/19/19 6:22 PM, Chris Laprise wrote: >>>> On 2/19/

Re: [qubes-users] Re: backup of files in a qube without networking to an internet service

2019-02-20 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 10:38:15 + lik...@gmx.de wrote: >On 2/19/19 6:22 PM, Chris Laprise wrote: >> On 2/19/19 10:41 AM, liked2-mmb7mzph...@public.gmane.org wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> assume there are files stored in a qube without networking. Furthermore >>> assume there's a secured backup

Re: [qubes-users] How to connect to usb tethering of my mobile to sys-net qube

2019-02-20 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Wed, 20 Feb 2019 08:35:29 -0800 (PST) acharya.sagar.sag...@gmail.com wrote: >I understand that the other VM which have firewall as their NetVM get the >network which gets filtered through firewall VM to secure the system. The >firewall system in turn receives network from sys-net. I

Re: [qubes-users] having to Install and run software twice?

2019-03-08 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 09:45:36 -0800 (PST) chris.boscarin...@gmail.com wrote: >Hi, >Just a quick question. I install software into my template (Fedora, in this >case) but when I try to run it from my "personal" qube, I must install it >again in that qube, as well as run the program once in the

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes - Critique (long)

2019-03-18 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 21:31:02 -0500 John Goold wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA256 > >*A Critique of Qubes* > >Before discussing Qubes, I want to give you a bit of background about >me. I do not want to tell my life-story, I doubt anyone is interested. >However, I want you

Re: [qubes-users] having to Install and run software twice?

2019-03-11 Thread Stuart Perkins
d in the template.) > >Daniel > >On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 13:40:32 -0600 >Stuart Perkins wrote: > >> On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 09:45:36 -0800 (PST) >> chris.boscarin...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> >Hi, >> >Just a quick question. I install software into my t

Re: [qubes-users] Re: why mail-list?

2019-02-07 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019 06:31:01 -0800 (PST) billol...@gmail.com wrote: >On Wednesday, February 6, 2019 at 11:36:12 AM UTC-5, unman wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 10:15:54AM -0600, John Goold wrote: >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > Hash: SHA256 >> > >> > On 2/6/19 1:12 AM, 'awokd'

Re: [qubes-users] Re: why mail-list?

2019-02-06 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Tue, 05 Feb 2019 13:34:04 -0500 kitchm via Forum wrote: >Some comments based on what has been posted so far: >... > It is currently illegal by >federal law to clear your browser history. >... Illegal for who? Perhaps a Federal employee...on a work computer. --

Re: [qubes-users] Re: why mail-list?

2019-02-06 Thread Stuart Perkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 6 Feb 2019 12:51:04 -0600 John Goold wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA256 > >On 2/6/19 10:36 AM, unman wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 06, 2019 at 10:15:54AM -0600, John Goold wrote: On >> 2/6/19 1:12 AM, 'awokd' via

Re: [qubes-users] Whonix Yes or No

2019-02-17 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:06:21 + "'awokd' via qubes-users" wrote: >jrsmi...@gmail.com wrote on 2/17/19 9:49 PM: >> Reading through the post questioning the trustworthiness of Whonix, I can't >> tell whether we can continue trusting/using Whonix or not. Can someone >> (preferably in a

Re: [qubes-users] Is it safe to install Qubes4 on laptop used windows10 before?

2019-02-14 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 16:12:36 + unman wrote: >On Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 08:55:01PM +, zxcvw...@scryptmail.com wrote: >> Hello All,I have a laptop from family that is rarely used,but with windows10 >> installed on it,arguably the most infamous windows version.If I install >> Qubse4.0 on

Re: [qubes-users] Re: hcl for qubes 4.0 or 4.0.1 is it good?

2019-01-31 Thread Stuart Perkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 19:12:09 +0100 Zrubi wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA256 > >On 1/31/19 3:32 PM, unman wrote: >> I know many people using Qubes 4 with 12GB and HDD, without >> issues. SSD is better, but not a must. >

Re: [qubes-users] Re: why mail-list?

2019-01-31 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 14:52:31 -0500 kitchm wrote: >The problem is more fundamental. > >In all things, we need to seek more commonality and >simplicity in our lives. In computer related issues, I have >found over the years that people who do not understand how >things work (thanks to the poor

Re: [qubes-users] Debian Template APT Vulnerability - A ticking bomb?

2019-02-01 Thread Stuart Perkins
I have a couple. One I use a lot, loaded with disinformation. Two are even less complete, but rarely used. I lost access to a fourth by accidentally trying to login over tor, and it insisted on ID to unlock it...so I just ignore that one now. On Fri, 1 Feb 2019 22:58:31 + "'awokd' via

Re: [qubes-users] why mail-list?

2019-02-02 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sat, 02 Feb 2019 14:12:53 +0100 Achim Patzner wrote: >Am Donnerstag, den 31.01.2019, 11:10 -0600 schrieb Stuart Perkins: >> Some of us who keep e-mails off line have the additional benefit of having >> an archive of all e-mails since joining the list. > >I don't

Re: [qubes-users] Borked template vm

2019-02-02 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sat, 2 Feb 2019 14:08:27 -0600 Daniel Allcock wrote: >Hello all, > >I seem to have borked a template vm, to the point that no applications >will start and I can't even use qvm-run from dom0 to do anything, not >even touch a file. There is one directory in >the root of the filesystem that

Re: [qubes-users] why mail-list?

2019-01-31 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 18:01:58 +0100 (CET) 19hundreds <19hundr...@tutanota.com> wrote: > >I agree at some level with what you are saying however, the current mailing >list has a lot of valuable information so I believe it's gonna be hard to se >it replaced with something else. > >Beside the

Re: getting rid of ME on modern CPUs (Re: [qubes-users] QSB #46: APT update mechanism vulnerability)

2019-01-29 Thread Stuart Perkins
Like I said, we need to reverse engineer. On Mon, 28 Jan 2019 17:56:17 + Holger Levsen wrote: >On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 11:46:55AM -0600, Stuart Perkins wrote: >> Up to a certain manufacture, you can go to coreboot and lose the ME >> entirely. After that point, setting

Re: [qubes-users] Some VMs on an external disk (unavailable at boot)

2019-02-04 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 21:27:44 +0100 Stefan Schlott wrote: >On 2/4/19 5:59 PM, Stuart Perkins wrote: > >> I do not know the official stance or method, but I symbolically link from >> the standard appVM location to my other drive where I have the larger >> appVM's. Min

Re: [qubes-users] Some VMs on an external disk (unavailable at boot)

2019-02-04 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 10:15:28 +0100 Stefan Schlott wrote: >Hi, > >I'd like to have some VMs on a secondary disk. I successfully followed >the guidelines from https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/secondary-storage/ > >Troubles arise when the disk is not available at boot time. I'm working >on some

Re: [qubes-users] Suggestion about an UI detail

2019-02-05 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 16:19:47 +0100 Nicklas Avén wrote: >On 2/5/19 3:08 PM, Mike Keehan wrote: >> On Tue, 5 Feb 2019 13:58:17 +0100 >> Nicklas Avén wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> >>> I am a new happy Qubes user. Getting almost everything to work on a >>> Dell 7530 with xeon 2186 and Nvidia P3200.

Re: [qubes-users] Is it possible to still download the last 3.2 templates?

2019-04-30 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 01:28:06 +0100 unman wrote: >On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 08:40:16AM -0500, Stuart Perkins wrote: >> I'm still stuck on 3.2 and need to redo my debian template. Is there a >> place where the last 3.2 template can be downloaded? >> >> Stuart

Re: [qubes-users] Is it possible to still download the last 3.2 templates?

2019-04-30 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 01:28:06 +0100 unman wrote: >On Mon, Apr 29, 2019 at 08:40:16AM -0500, Stuart Perkins wrote: >> I'm still stuck on 3.2 and need to redo my debian template. Is there a >> place where the last 3.2 template can be downloaded? >> >> Stuart

[qubes-users] Is it possible to still download the last 3.2 templates?

2019-04-29 Thread Stuart Perkins
I'm still stuck on 3.2 and need to redo my debian template. Is there a place where the last 3.2 template can be downloaded? Stuart -- 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

Re: [qubes-users] Help with hardware

2019-04-27 Thread Stuart Perkins
Many thinkpad models are on the compatible list. I use a T520 which has been further secured by coreboot. disclaimer:... I'm still running 3.2 as I have not had the opportunity to upgrade. My USB ports on this motherboard are not working, and I want to get a fully functional one setup

[qubes-users] Got new hardware coming

2019-08-13 Thread Stuart Perkins
I have commissioned the creation of a coreboot Lenovo W520. It is already running Qubes 4.x, but I will likely do a reinstall just for the experience and to put it together with my GUI of choice etc... I will have a 240+GB SSD for the main OS and certain VM's. I will move my 2TB hdd over and

[qubes-users] Re: Got new hardware coming

2019-08-19 Thread Stuart Perkins
for the best security. It needs to require ZERO blobs for most security. I'll keep you posted with the results. Stuart On Tue, 13 Aug 2019 18:42:41 -0500 Stuart Perkins wrote: >I have commissioned the creation of a coreboot Lenovo W520. > >It is already running Qubes 4.x, but I will

Re: [qubes-users] Done with Qubes

2019-08-27 Thread Stuart Perkins
Instream... On Tue, 27 Aug 2019 11:39:06 -0700 (PDT) O K wrote: >You mean I create a VM with Whonix OS installed (using virtualbox I'm >guessing)? I will have to research that, but yes I do need to use a VM, or >multiple VM's. I'd also like to find a way to use Firejail to sandbox

Re: [qubes-users] Cant connect hard drive to appvms?

2019-09-04 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Wed, 4 Sep 2019 20:12:26 -0400 Stumpy wrote: >I have a hard drive that i cant seem to connect to any of the appvms yet >I can see and access it via dom0 (not good i know). >I can attach a usb flash drive to my appvms but not the hard drive? > >This is on my laptop and i do not have a

[qubes-users] What gives with the restrictions on mounting devices?

2020-03-01 Thread Stuart Perkins
I have a 300gb drive image I mount on whichever machine I want to put common things...pictures/documents/etc...and this happens: Here is my mount scrip..{/mnt/2tb is the mount point for my 2 terrabyte drive} == [admin@dom0 ~]$ cat bin/mount300g.sh if [ A${1} == A ] then

Re: [qubes-users] What gives with the restrictions on mounting devices?

2020-03-01 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sun, 1 Mar 2020 15:03:46 + unman wrote: >On Sun, Mar 01, 2020 at 06:48:14AM -0600, Stuart Perkins wrote: >> I have a 300gb drive image I mount on whichever machine I want to put common >> things...pictures/documents/etc...and this happens: >> >> Here i

Re: [qubes-users] the qubes clipboard

2020-03-01 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 11:15 AM Ulrich Windl < ulrich.wi...@rz.uni-regensburg.de> wrote: > Hi! > > I'm very much confused with the Qubes OS clipboard: > When trying to copy some text from a Temrinal, I mark the text with the > mouse then press "Ctrl+Shift+C", and I get a confirmation that the text

Re: [qubes-users] the qubes clipboard

2020-03-01 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Mon, 2 Mar 2020 00:35:44 + "'Jackie' via qubes-users" wrote: >unman: >> On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 07:02:58PM +, 'Jackie' via qubes-users wrote: >>> Ulrich Windl: Hi! I'm very much confused with the Qubes OS clipboard: When trying to copy some text from a

[qubes-users] Expose loop devices

2020-02-27 Thread Stuart Perkins
I use a "disk image" on more than one appvm (not at the same time of course) and mounting as a loop device in dom0 then qvm-block attach to the target vm works ... most of the time. I normally get an error concerning qubes not exposing the device until I perform a "cd" command. It is a poor

[qubes-users] Wifi won't connect

2020-02-21 Thread Stuart Perkins
I finally got my replacement laptop. This is a Lenovo T420, with coreboot BIOS. It came from my supplier with Qubes 4.0 installed. It all works well on wired internet or unsecured wifi, but my main router is WPA secured and it won't get a DHCP response. The main router is the one running

Re: [qubes-users] Is it recommended to install any anti-virus, anti-malware or anti-spyware apps in Qubes OS 4.0.3 or does Qubes OS takes care of all that ? - If not, which do you recommend ?

2020-03-11 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Wed, 11 Mar 2020 06:00:30 -0700 (PDT) "'M' via qubes-users" wrote: >As a newbie I would like some guidance on how to set up the "QubesFirewall" >"correctly". > >I have looked on the following pages, but didn't find any guidance on this. > >https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/firewall/

[qubes-users] Embarrassing question

2020-03-10 Thread Stuart Perkins
I can't for the life of me figure out how to regenerate the boot file... I want to "nosplash" it, and I just can't find anything that works. I find the "splash" screen annoying and I don't want to have keep pressing a key to make it go away. I like to see the messages...they tell me stuff.

Re: [EXT] [qubes-users] How to attach private storage from one AppVM to another AppVM (LVM)?

2020-12-10 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Thu, 10 Dec 2020 20:43:27 +0100 Ulrich Windl wrote: >On 12/7/20 3:56 PM, 'heinrich...@googlemail.com' via qubes-users wrote: >> From one AppVM I need to temporarily access a large amount of files >> from another AppVM. Can this be done without copying the files around? >> >>

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Cheap laptops that run Qubes

2021-01-25 Thread Stuart Perkins
tten with coreboot. New hard drive. New solid state hard drive. Chose a model with no "blobs" of code needed in the BIOS. Levovo Thinkpad T420i. The newest Lenovo model you can completely coreboot is an X1 carbon Generation 1. From Generation 2 on you will need blobs of encrypted co

Re: [qubes-users] Problems setting /etc/hosts

2021-01-21 Thread Stuart Perkins
On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 22:34:14 + "'awokd' via qubes-users" wrote: >mgla...@gmail.com: >> Hi, >> >> Hopefully I'm doing something silly here. >> >> I want to add a couple of entries into my /etc/hosts file in a specific VM. >> The instructions here are nice and >> clear:

[qubes-users] Exported Volume Error.

2021-01-27 Thread 'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users
Ok, now I'm afraid to turn off my computer or even stop any Debian template based VM's... Here is what happened. I was going to do a general update on Dom0 and my Debian-10 and Fedora-32 templates. As is my habit, I deleted the older clones of those template VM's and was creating new

Re: [qubes-users] Exported Volume Error.

2021-01-27 Thread 'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users
On Thu, 28 Jan 2021 00:31:16 + Rusty Bird wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA512 > >'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users: >> Ok, now I'm afraid to turn off my computer or even stop any Debian template >> based VM's... > >Don't panic, it's

Re: [qubes-users] Desktop changed to grey, won't change to anything else

2022-07-28 Thread 'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users
On Wed, 27 Jul 2022 10:23:44 -0500 "'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users" wrote: >My setup: > >Lenovo T420i >Coreboot >Qubes OS 4.0 >xfce4 desktop >fully encrypted disks, 250Gb SSD main, 2TBHD for the larger MV images. > >The problem cropped up the other day w

[qubes-users] Desktop changed to grey, won't change to anything else

2022-07-27 Thread 'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users
My setup: Lenovo T420i Coreboot Qubes OS 4.0 xfce4 desktop fully encrypted disks, 250Gb SSD main, 2TBHD for the larger MV images. The problem cropped up the other day where my assigned solid color of black background suddenly changed to gray. Using the system tools, desktop to change it has

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Task bar disappeared?

2022-10-28 Thread 'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users
On Fri, 28 Oct 2022 09:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Scat wrote: >Update: >- I typed: xfce4-panel into the Dom0 terminal >- I received errors in the Dom0 terminal and as mentioned the Task bar >appeared > >It didn't survive a reboot of my computer. I typed: xfce4-panel into Dom0 >it appeared... > ... I

Re: [qubes-users] Re: Beginner questions

2023-05-25 Thread 'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users
Bottom post is the standard on this list. See my response at the bottom... :) On Thu, 25 May 2023 19:02:23 + "'sonnenfinsternis' via qubes-users" wrote: >Sounds helpful, I'll try it when I get a chance, thanks :) After reading this >[1], I can now even use my USB mouse directly after

Re: [qubes-users] Fedora 36 reaches EOL on 2023-05-16

2023-05-12 Thread 'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users
On Thu, 11 May 2023 15:20:17 -0700 Andrew David Wong wrote: >Dear Qubes Community, > >The Fedora Project has >[announced](https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/annou...@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/4GXBZJSGQ2PEKIBM2APCTLXBS6IDKSOP/) > that Fedora 36 will reach EOL

Re: [qubes-users] issue with URL handler in Thunderbird: started VM receives truncated URL

2024-02-22 Thread 'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users
On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:25:18 +0100 Ulrich Windl wrote: >Hi! > > >I managed to configure Thunderbird to run any links via a DVM. However >today I realized that URLs with parameters are truncated (Qubes-OS 4.2) >after the first parameter it seem. > >For example I have the URL

Re: [qubes-users] issue with URL handler in Thunderbird: started VM receives truncated URL

2024-02-22 Thread 'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users
On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 22:19:21 +0100 Ulrich Windl wrote: >On 2/22/24 22:15, Ulrich Windl wrote: >> On 2/22/24 21:54, 'Stuart Perkins' via qubes-users wrote: >>> >>> On Thu, 22 Feb 2024 21:25:18 +0100 >>> Ulrich Windl wrote: >>> >>>&