Re: [qubes-users] Dual boot and two swaps?

2017-02-25 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 25/02/17 02:33, Oleg Artemiev wrote: Say I've one enrypted swap and one not from other linux. Would Qubes ignore unencrupted swap from other distribution or I should make it to? If so - how do I? as far as i understand it, swap is a partition with the file-system swap and mounted as

Re: [qubes-users] Two qubes multinoot

2017-02-25 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 25/02/17 04:14, Oleg Artemiev wrote: Hi. If I want to run VMs from one Qubes in another why would you even dualboot two qubesversions? would it be possible to have different coloring for the same VM in different Qubes OS instances? here the questions is, what files you would share? i am

[qubes-users] strange error when installing pycairo on fedora minimal

2017-02-20 Thread john.david.r.smith
hi. i want to install terminator in my vm. since the terminator package does not install everything correctly (pycairo is not installed), i need to install pycairo manually. but this does not work, since dnf somehow ties to install a different package... $ sudo dnf install pycairo Package

[qubes-users] program icons for fedora-minimal

2017-02-20 Thread john.david.r.smith
hi. if i use templates based on fedora minimal, the start menu entries only have a lock as an icon. vms based on the normal fedora template have icons. how can i get icons for my fedora minimal vms? - john -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups

Re: [qubes-users] Cant start the AppVM - uninstalled python-numpy.

2017-02-13 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 13/02/17 01:31, Keld Norman wrote: Hi community :) I ran this on a standalone debian 8 appvm apt-get purge python-numpy Yes, I now know that is not the most cleaver command to run.. It resulted in the following packages got removed: python-numpy python-qwt4-qt4 qubes-core-agent gimp

[qubes-users] using a custom salt module in top files

2017-02-10 Thread john.david.r.smith
hi. i wrote some custom salt module and use it for rendering in my top-file. everything works great as long as i am only in dom0. as soon as my stuff is run in domU (or rather its management-vm) i get errors: when rendering:

Re: [qubes-users] Re: traveling - best practice

2017-02-10 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 10/02/17 11:53, '0xDEADBEEF00' via qubes-users wrote: Interesting topic... I would like to here more about how people handle this. On my side, I'would never work on sensitive information in such a situation. To make just some surfing in public place, my laptop is installed with a standard

Re: [qubes-users] ubuntu template

2017-02-10 Thread john.david.r.smith
Unman can you make a template rpm Ubuntu and put it on https://ftp.qubes-os.org/repo/yum/r3.2/templates-community/rpm/ ?:) i also would prefer this option, but it seems it is not possible due to legal issues. see: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/ubuntu/ maybe we could convince

Re: [qubes-users] traveling - best practice

2017-02-08 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 07/02/17 14:09, haaber wrote: Hello, I wonder how you behave when traveling, for example in places with cameras all around. I feel uncomfortable to enter my passwords in such situations. Of course I can simply not turn my computer on. But sometimes you have several hours in an airport .. I

Re: [qubes-users] Having trouble configuring VMs with Salt / qubesctl

2017-02-06 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 07/02/17 00:01, Joe Ruether wrote: Hello! I am using Qubes 3.2 and I am attempting to automate the configuration of my VMs using the Salt / qubesctl management stack. I am very new to salt, but I have been experimenting and I think I understand how it works. I have written some state files

Re: [qubes-users] "Backup VMs" does not backup salt configuration

2017-02-05 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 05/02/17 23:59, john.david.r.smith wrote: On 05/02/17 00:06, Oleg Artemiev wrote: Hi. On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:56 PM, john.david.r.smith <john.david.r.sm...@openmailbox.org> wrote: On 01/02/17 21:30, qu...@posteo.de wrote: I have now nearly a complete salt configuration for

Re: [qubes-users] "Backup VMs" does not backup salt configuration

2017-02-05 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 05/02/17 00:06, Oleg Artemiev wrote: Hi. On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 11:56 PM, john.david.r.smith <john.david.r.sm...@openmailbox.org> wrote: On 01/02/17 21:30, qu...@posteo.de wrote: I have now nearly a complete salt configuration for all my templates so I do not need to backup them a

Re: [qubes-users] Disposable VMs

2017-02-04 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 04/02/17 18:42, Loren Rogers wrote: Hi all, I'm confused about running disposable VMs - if I open a browser or file viewer, then want to open a terminal for the same VM, how could I do this? (E.g. I want to view an untrusted file, then make some edits.) right click the dispvm in the qubes

[qubes-users] qvm-run --dispvm in dom0

2017-02-03 Thread john.david.r.smith
hi. is there some way to launch a dispvm from dom0 and execute a command (just like `qvm-run --dispvm` in domu) or do i need to create a temporary vm? -john -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and

Re: [qubes-users] "Backup VMs" does not backup salt configuration

2017-02-01 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 01/02/17 21:30, qu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi, I have now nearly a complete salt configuration for all my templates so I do not need to backup them anymore and save a lot of space by this. So I have ran a backup including dom0 and realized that the salt configuration ("/srv/salt") does not

Re: [qubes-users] Wine/PlayOnLinux Best Practices

2017-01-31 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 31/01/17 22:24, mojosam wrote: it does protect you from user errors. e.g.: you have some malicious pdf in a vm. if you have noting to open the pdf, you can't accidentally open it and corrupt your vm. Isn't that the concept behind "attack surface"? If the code is there, something

Re: [qubes-users] Right Way to Setup your VPN to prevent Leaks ?

2017-01-31 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 31/01/17 19:38, ulabunga wrote: My Setup proxy vm + airvpn in network manager ,TCP-53 -> appvm x importing airvpn VPN configuration files (TCP-53) in my proxy vm network manager and select this 'AirVpn' proxyvm in my netvm settings for all my fedora/debain appvm's. Is there any better

Re: [qubes-users] Wine/PlayOnLinux Best Practices

2017-01-31 Thread john.david.r.smith
Since this is in my regular Fedora 24 template, won't this codebase be included in every app VM I run, whether I'm running PlayOnLinux in that app VM or not? yes Presumably none of that code would be running, so there should be no problem (at least i can't see any problems) but it

Re: [qubes-users] Minimal VM requirements for Salt configuration are not documented

2017-01-21 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 20/01/17 14:13, john.david.r.smith wrote: On 20/01/17 13:18, qu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi John, On 20.01.2017 10:26, john.david.r.smith wrote: looks like my problem i posted here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/C1tJV4Ykgr8/5H09IT06CQAJ i did not try it again since i had

Re: [qubes-users] a few things about salt

2017-01-21 Thread john.david.r.smith
Did you really need tinyproxy in the target template? It should be needed only in your netvm... Or are you saying that tinyproxy was missing in your netvm? it was red in my fed24 minimal journalctl. after i installed it, it went away (currently most things i am doing are kind of blind

Re: [qubes-users] a few things about salt

2017-01-21 Thread john.david.r.smith
i am currently looking whether i can do the same in a top file (but i doubt it, since there is no templating in top files) And the last sentence is exactly the reason why it's tricky to have it in one place. well it seems we were totally wrong. you can put jinja code in your top file. i

Re: [qubes-users] Minimal VM requirements for Salt configuration are not documented

2017-01-20 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 20/01/17 13:18, qu...@posteo.de wrote: Hi John, On 20.01.2017 10:26, john.david.r.smith wrote: looks like my problem i posted here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/C1tJV4Ykgr8/5H09IT06CQAJ i did not try it again since i had this problem. missing in min are sudo and file

Re: [qubes-users] a few things about salt

2017-01-17 Thread john.david.r.smith
1) even when some states fail for some vm, the cli tool displays ok. it would be better, if it displayed error in case of an error (some errors are displayed). Can you provide example error which wasn't detected? Regardless of the result, output is logged to /var/log/qubes/mgmt-*.log in dom0.

[qubes-users] qvm-ls

2017-01-14 Thread john.david.r.smith
hi. two questions about qvm-ls 1) qvm-ls displays ip, ip back an gateway/DNS. what is ip back? 2) how does the --raw-data flag work? can someone post an example? i tried things like qvm-ls --raw-data ip sys-tor but i always end up with a traceback of qvm-ls ('line 225 fields[f]["max_width"] =

[qubes-users] question about policy permission declarations

2017-01-14 Thread john.david.r.smith
hi. when looking at the policy permissions in '/etc/qubes-rpc/policy' i noticed the only line 'qubes.USB' contains is: $anyvm $anyvm deny why is that line there? as far as i understood it has no effect as any other declaration of the form: $anyvm deny since deny is the default action and

Re: [qubes-users] Qubes 3.2 Dom0 no longer updating.

2017-01-06 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 06/01/17 13:15, Opal Raava wrote: Hi all, Since about a week or so, I'm unable to update dom0 the way I used to. The VM Manager will tell me there are updates available for Dom0, and when I click 'Update VM' I see the familiar 'downloading updates' but after that the window with the

Re: [qubes-users] Have Windows VM open and play video in Linux VM?

2017-01-02 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 02/01/17 15:34, Jarle Thorsen wrote: As there is currently no audio support for Windows in Qubes OS: Can I use any of the Qubes windows tools to copy a video file to a Linux vm and have it start playing there? The file should only be copied to a temp directory, and not put in

Re: [qubes-users] RFC: adding qubes images to the (qubes) repo

2016-12-28 Thread john.david.r.smith
if offloading is done for isos: ship the master key with qubes and provide a convenience command to the user. this command should download (e.g. via torrent) and verify the image (a step the user can'd do wrong anymore). this command could spawn a dispvm, install torrent software, load the

Re: [qubes-users] RFC: adding qubes images to the (qubes) repo

2016-12-28 Thread john.david.r.smith
the problem is (as you wrote) 'supposed to be verified out-of-band'. for some less technical people, even verifying the signature is a huge step. i am a fan of providing easy accessible security and using already existing infrastructure. (in case of the dom0 repo, an ultimately trusted source).

Re: [qubes-users] RFC: adding qubes images to the (qubes) repo

2016-12-28 Thread john.david.r.smith
this may be a source of errors for some users, or even insecure (mitm + exchanging the master signing key information on the website + patching the downloaded image). I know what you mean, but it's worth remembering that the Qubes Master Signing Key fingerprint is supposed to be verified

[qubes-users] RFC: adding qubes images to the (qubes) repo

2016-12-28 Thread john.david.r.smith
currently when i have qubes and need a new image (e.g. to reinstall/install on a new machine), i need to download the image from qubes-os.org and then check the signature. this may be a source of errors for some users, or even insecure (mitm + exchanging the master signing key information on

Re: [qubes-users] Unable to change timezone?

2016-12-25 Thread john.david.r.smith
I have already tried that, and it fails with "Failed to set time zone: Unit systemd-timedated.service is masked". I just tried it and it works for me (it even updates the time instantly). did you change stuff in dom0? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google

[qubes-users] config-vm and inter vm file transfer

2016-12-21 Thread john.david.r.smith
hi. currently i am configuring salt to create and configure all my vms. my target is to have only a minimal set of vms i need to backup (vault, config, data, custom systemd based services for my vms) and a set of salt files to create my whole setup. creating vms and installing software works.

Re: [qubes-users] using salt to install software in template-vms

2016-12-18 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 18/12/16 23:04, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Sun, Dec 18, 2016 at 10:47:36PM +, john.david.r.smith wrote: hi. currently i am trying to configure salt to create and setup all my templates and vms. i managed to create the vms and do

[qubes-users] using salt to install software in template-vms

2016-12-18 Thread john.david.r.smith
hi. currently i am trying to configure salt to create and setup all my templates and vms. i managed to create the vms and do the config in dom0. then i tried to install software in my template-vms, but this failed. my top: base: tmp-salt: #this is a template (a clone of fedora-23) - q

Re: [qubes-users] can't start hvm with a cdrom

2016-07-25 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 25/07/16 22:17, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 10:06:56PM +0200, john.david.r.smith wrote: On 25/07/16 21:56, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, Jul 25, 2016

Re: [qubes-users] can't start hvm with a cdrom

2016-07-25 Thread john.david.r.smith
On 25/07/16 21:56, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Mon, Jul 25, 2016 at 09:11:03PM +0200, john.david.r.smith wrote: hi. i want to install windows 8 in an hvm (so i can update it). but somehow i can't start the vm with an iso. (see output

[qubes-users] can't start hvm with a cdrom

2016-07-25 Thread john.david.r.smith
hi. i want to install windows 8 in an hvm (so i can update it). but somehow i can't start the vm with an iso. (see output below) [user@dom0 ~]$ qvm-start w8 --cdrom=data:/home/user/w8.iso --> Loading the VM (type = HVM)... Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/qvm-start", line 131,

[qubes-users] steam in linux appvm

2016-07-22 Thread john.david.r.smith
hi. i want to play some linux games through steam in a appvm (based on debian). when starting steam i get this error: "OpenGL GLX extension not supported by display" i guess this is the case, since i did not pass any GPU to the vm. So i tried passing my nvidia gt 740m. If i set up its device

Re: [qubes-users] Does Qubes play well with Computer vision, and ML?

2016-06-01 Thread john.david.r.smith
i never tried, but you can pass your pci devices to an appvm (e.g. your gpu). https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/assigning-devices/ frameworks will often allow you to use your cpu in case you have no gpu. as long as your models are small enough you can train that on cpu. (but training a big nn