On Thursday, December 29, 2016 at 6:13:34 PM UTC-5, superlative wrote: > On Thursday, December 22, 2016 at 7:34:55 PM UTC-8, raah...@gmail.com wrote: > > you will have to print from a sys-usb qubes then most likely if using usb. > > the template you install printer drivers to is that one. You can try to add > > single usb device instead if using latest qubes. > > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/ > > > > Scroll to "Attaching a single USB device to a qube (USB passthrough)" > > > > Then you can attach the single usb device to an appvm and possibly print to > > it? No idea though I've never tried it, maybe someone with more > > experience can chime in. Actually I have dont it with an android phone and > > its worked. Before I would have to transfer files from the usbvm. So > > maybe it works for printers too I would give it a shot. > > > > Though, most people use network printer from a disposable vm using a > > whole separate template. cause printer drivers is untrusted. first virus > > i ever got as a young child was from a printer driver disk straight from > > factory. > > That worked. I opened a terminal on Fedora-23 template VM, ran "sudo dnf > install qubes-usb-proxy" without quotes, opened a XTerm from the System Tools > Xfce start menu, ran "qvm-usb", found my printer listed, then ran "qvm-usb -a > disp[#] sys-usb:[#-#]" replacing # with whatever number the disposable app VM > I had open that I wanted to print from and the other #s replaced with the > numbers listed next to my printer with the previous command "qvm-usb" and no > brackets or quotes. Printed just fine. I wish qvm-usb was available through > the GUI Qubes VM Manager. Since it's not I have to save a Firefox bookmark to > the page https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/ so I don't forget the commands I > need to use to attach my printer to another disposable VM next time I need to > print. > > Thanks for all your help you guys. My printer now works!
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