On Thu, Aug 05, 2021 at 07:42:49AM +0200, 'Ing Gianluca Cavallo' via qubes-users wrote: > I'm a completely newbie qubes os user and I have this issue to solve and > maybe for you is too simple because you know what qubes is. > I created a StandaloneVM that means that it doesn't communicate with other > VMs and it souds great. > But I need, temporary, to relax this option and I see that there is a deamon > called qrexec that is responsable of this channel, so if I get what it is, I > should need the command to give in dom0 to open and close the devices > communication ports with the VMs. > In my case I created both a linux and a windows standaloneVM but I need to > connect a digitalsign USB device because its driver is only for windows. For > linux I have other needs. > Could you tell me how I can open this channel ? so how I can make the usb > available for the standaloneVM ? > Is it possibile to execute a standaloneVM as root ? > Thanks in advance > Ing >
If I understand you, you want to be able to connect a USB device to the standalones. You *could* attach the USB controller to the standalone using the "Devices" tab on the qubes Settings. I suspect that this isn't what you want, and that what you want to do is keep the device attached to sys-usb and pass it through to the standalone. For Windows, there are Qubes Windows Tools, which provide *some* qrexec functions, like inter-qube copy and paste. Unfortunately I don't believe that the tools currently support USB pass through. So the only option would be to attach the USB controller. (I'm not a Windows user.) For Linux, this would depend on what distribution you have used for the standalone. You haven't said. If it is one of the stock qubes distros then you *may* be able to install qubes packages and have them work - note that "may". The best bet would be to create a standalone from an existing template. I don't understand your question about executing a standalone as root. If you mean "can I run as root in the standalone" the answer is "Of course" - how you get to do this depends on what distribution of Linux you are using. -- 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 qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20210817155339.GB15065%40thirdeyesecurity.org.
