On Wed, Apr 05, 2017 at 03:35:46AM -0700, Craig Claussen wrote: > Hey guys, > > Love what you are doing here. > > But my lack of skills seems to have failed me as I'm noobish to linux and > Qubes. > > I was following instructions: > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/usb/#creating-and-using-a-usb-qube > > I got that to work. > > This created a default USB VM on my VM Manager. > > I guess I should have just deleted that default USB VM and created a new one. > > Because as soon as I started it up, I lost control of my keyboard and mouse > and now if I reboot I still have no keyboard and mouse. So I can't even > log-in. > > Is there some sort of command that I can use in grub to regain access to my > mouse and keyboard? > > And is there a way to make USB VM's a little more intricate so it makes it > harder to just zap every existing USB to no-man's land? >
Hello Craig, The documentation isn't all that clear on this, because the section on checking what will be captured is in the "manual" section of that page, whereas really every one setting up USBVM should do it. I wonder why the qubes input proxy isn't kicking in - this should allow you to use keyboard and mouse when attached to a USBVM - what template did you use for that? You can try to trigger the proxy by unplugging the mouse and keyboard and plugging them back in. The simplest thing to do would be to attach a PS/2 keyboard, if you can. Then you should be able to stop the USBVM and reassign the controller to which your mouse and keyboard are attached. If you look at the manual setup section there is advice on how to identify controllers and assign them to a USBVM. You can interrupt the grub process, and edit the boot configuration - this will vary depending on what boot method you selected, but you should be able to delete the part of the line that contains rd.qubes.hide_all_usb and then boot. Another possibility would be to boot from a live usb, and try to edit the Qubes startup files so that the USBVM does not autostart. But as a self confessed noob this might be tricky. So - first try replugging the devices, or using PS/2 alternatives. If neither work, come back and we'll try to give some more help. best of luck unman. -- 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 it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20170405230414.GC16499%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
