Re: [qubes-users] BIOS did not enable IDB for VT properly. - TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 13

2017-10-19 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Patrick Schleizer:
> Qubes R4 RC1 with TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 13 [1]. Xen crashes. Boot aborts.
> 
>> BIOS did not enable IDB for VT properly. crash Xen for security purposes
> 
> Did anyone see this error ever before? Any idea how to fix it?
> 
> Cheers,
> Patrick
> 
> [1]
> https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebooks/10-14-Zoll/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-13-matt-Full-HD-IPS-Aluminiumgehaeuse-Intel-Core-i7-U-CPU-bis-32GB-RAM-zwei-HDD/SSD-bis-12h-Akku-Typ-C-Thunderbolt.geek
> 

Could get it to boot using

iommu=force

Cheers,
Patrick

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[qubes-users] BIOS did not enable IDB for VT properly. - TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 13

2017-10-17 Thread Patrick Schleizer
Qubes R4 RC1 with TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 13 [1]. Xen crashes. Boot aborts.

> BIOS did not enable IDB for VT properly. crash Xen for security purposes

Did anyone see this error ever before? Any idea how to fix it?

Cheers,
Patrick

[1]
https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebooks/10-14-Zoll/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-13-matt-Full-HD-IPS-Aluminiumgehaeuse-Intel-Core-i7-U-CPU-bis-32GB-RAM-zwei-HDD/SSD-bis-12h-Akku-Typ-C-Thunderbolt.geek

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Re: [qubes-users] BIOS check before Qubes installation

2017-07-08 Thread Chris Laprise

On 07/08/2017 12:16 PM, Max wrote:

Hello,
How to check if BIOS require digital signatures on BIOS firmware updates?



IIRC, a firmware setup menu that has an 'anti-rollback' protection 
setting (to prevent earlier firmware versions from being accepted) 
should have signature verification.


As of 2012 the UEFI spec did not require this feature. I believe this 
has changed since then -- you can look for such a requirement at 
http://www.uefi.org/specifications .


You will probably get a more definitive answer for this type of question 
if you ask the Coreboot and Libreboot communities, as they regularly 
deal with such protection measures.


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[qubes-users] BIOS check before Qubes installation

2017-07-08 Thread Max

  


  
  
Hello,
  How to check if BIOS require digital signatures on BIOS firmware
  updates?

  



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[qubes-users] BIOS

2016-12-25 Thread Drew White
Where would I put a BIOS for a VM?

I've tried to get one working, but I've been unsuccessful getting it to work.
I placed it with the other bios.bin and called it instead, but it did not 
appear to work.

Is it possible to use a ROM file instead?

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[qubes-users] BIOS Security Settings?

2016-12-18 Thread '0194358'019438'0194328'01943
Hello,

does a BIOS password (against BIOS changes), gives a higher system security, or 
it is more like a security fake and could be easily bypassed?

Should I switch the IME off?

Kind Regards

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Re: [qubes-users] BIOS updates in qubes

2016-06-06 Thread Zrubi
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On 06/03/2016 01:54 AM, Buck Smith wrote:
> With a Dell laptop  running qubes, presumably no BIOS updates
> happen, right?  One could still get attacked via BIOS is some had
> physical access to machine to swap out a part.  But not over
> internet.  Agree? Disagree?

Modern BIOS/EFI systems may have a remote management interface. (Dell
and Lenovo business models surely has) This feature is nice to have in
a corporate environment, where your machine is managed by your company.

If it is not disabled and/or not protected then your BIOS may be
reached from the internet (but at least from your LAN) in that case no
matter what OS are you running, the "boss" is the one who controlling
your BIOS.

I'm the one who not even believe that a disable feature in BIOS is
even real ;) So you can be never know until you prove it. The same
apply for ~all the Intel v-pro features.


A standard manual BIOS update really depends on you. Some are
following the "do not repair it if it's not broken" process. Some will
update immediately after release.

You must trust the provider of your BIOS fully. Lenovo at least
providing hashes for their firmware.  Others may not even care about
such thing...



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Re: [qubes-users] BIOS updates in qubes

2016-06-03 Thread Andrew David Wong
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On 2016-06-02 16:54, Buck Smith wrote:
> With a Dell laptop  running qubes, presumably no BIOS updates
> happen, right?

Do you mean automatically? If so, correct. (But I think that's true of
most OSes.)

> One could still get attacked via BIOS is some had physical access 
> to machine to swap out a part.

Correct. (Swapping out a part is one way, but there are potentially
"easier" ways too.)

> But not over internet.  Agree?  Disagree?

Depends on what you mean by "over internet." I've noticed that UEFI on
recent motherboards typically has the ability to update itself over
the internet from within the UEFI itself. Qubes can't prevent that,
because Qubes isn't even running at that point (though AEM should
detect such changes after the fact.)

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[qubes-users] BIOS updates in qubes

2016-06-02 Thread Buck Smith
With a Dell laptop  running qubes, presumably no BIOS updates happen, 
right?  One could still get attacked via BIOS is some had physical access 
to machine to swap out a part.  But not over internet.  Agree?  Disagree?

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