[qubes-users] Re: The more cores the merrier?

All of this more or less answers my question. I'm not planning on having a lot of VMs busy simultaneously. I do expect to have a lot of VMs open for various purposes. Most will be idle much of the time. Some might be doing a thing or two. It sounds like a fast quad-core processor with gobs

[qubes-users] Re: The more cores the merrier?

My question isn't about how many virtual CPUs to assign but whether a Qubes system with many cores is really faster than one with fewer cores. Does the OS know how to use many cores and do a good job of exploiting them? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Grou

[qubes-users] The more cores the merrier?

I'm thinking about replacing one of my computers. I don't know if that will be my Qubes machine or one of the others. I talked to the owner of the local mom & pop computer shop. I said that I was considering getting an AMD processor, because they have a lot of cores. He said that most applic

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

> As for security, imagine my surprise when my Linux desktop started popping up > malware ads, which ran quite happily in Wine. Precisely my concern! I will probably eventually create a Windows HVM and just run necessary stuff in there. I didn't want to run an entire instance of Windows just t

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

> 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 malicious might have the ability to ca

[qubes-users] Wine/PlayOnLinux Best Practices

I am in the process of installing PlayOnLinux into my Fedora 24 template. Currently, my only use for it is the Kindle app. I suspect I'll find further need for it in the future. My original plan was to just use the Kindle app in one of my existing app VMs. In the future, I might want some ot

[qubes-users] Re: How to Backup Qubes Using New USB Hard Drive

Andrew: Success! Everything works now. When I sat down to do this, I realized that I actually only needed one USB qube, and that's the one that I do not want talking to dom0. The keyboard and mouse are already talking to dom0, which I don't want to change. It's all of the other USB devices

Re: [qubes-users] How to Backup Qubes Using New USB Hard Drive

Andrew: Thank you for clarifying this. What you said is all in the documentation that I had already read, but I got lost trying to put it into perspective. The complicating factor is that I have a USB keyboard and mouse plugged into a KVM switch, which is plugged into the computer. I need to

[qubes-users] How to Backup Qubes Using New USB Hard Drive

How to Backup Qubes Using New USB Hard Drive I'd like to backup my VMs to an external USB hard drive. I have a couple of questions not answered by these pages: and The drive is a new Seagate 1.5TB hard drive. I

[qubes-users] Sleep Verb Not Supported

My computer doesn't go to sleep. I have XFCE Power Manager set to Hibernate the system after one hour. When I come back to the system after that time, the screen is blank (but not off) and the system seems to be fully powered up (the fan seems to be running at the same speed as when I'm using

Re: [qubes-users] Are my AppVMs living in a tiny corner of my hard drive?

On Thursday, December 1, 2016 at 9:27:42 PM UTC-8, Chris Laprise wrote: > On 12/01/2016 11:52 PM, mojosam wrote: > > I have a 110 GB SSD. If I look at the settings for any of my AppVMs, it > > says that the "Private storage max. size" is 2048 MB (which is the > &g

[qubes-users] Are my AppVMs living in a tiny corner of my hard drive?

I have a 110 GB SSD. If I look at the settings for any of my AppVMs, it says that the "Private storage max. size" is 2048 MB (which is the default). It also says that "System storage max size" is 10240 MB. Is 10240 MB the maximum size that an AppVM is allowed to get, or is that the size of th

[qubes-users] HCL - HP Compaq 8200 Elite SFF

I got a cheap price on a used HP Compaq 8200 Elite SFF desktop machine. I stuck Qubes on it, and it looks like everything installed correctly. Tor is failing, but I suspect that's a configuration issue. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users

[qubes-users] HCL - Dell OptiPlex 780

The last time I tried to install Qubes onto this machine was almost two years ago. I had a lot of trouble with the install. The final result was that the system ran fine, but the HVM and IOMMU were giving me trouble. Rather than troubleshoot it, I got distracted by other shiny things. I deci