Re: [qubes-devel] Re: Announcing the Xen Security Advisory (XSA) Tracker

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 07:54:44PM -0600, Reg Tiangha wrote: > I have a question, just as a regular user: Because Qubes isn't affected > by the most recent XSA, does this mean we probably won't get Xen 4.6.5 > pushed out? Or is that something that wi

[qubes-devel] Re: Announcing the Xen Security Advisory (XSA) Tracker

On 03/21/2017 07:45 PM, Andrew David Wong wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA512 > > Dear Qubes community, > > We're pleased to announce the new Xen Security Advisory (XSA) Tracker > [1]. This tracker clearly shows whether the security of Qubes OS is > (or was) affected by any g

[qubes-devel] Announcing the Xen Security Advisory (XSA) Tracker

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dear Qubes community, We're pleased to announce the new Xen Security Advisory (XSA) Tracker [1]. This tracker clearly shows whether the security of Qubes OS is (or was) affected by any given XSA [2] in a simple "Yes" or "No" format. Since Qubes OS u

Re: [qubes-devel] dom0 editable by qvm-prefs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 07:54:12PM -0500, Nicklaus McClendon wrote: > Currently, qvm-prefs allows you to edit dom0 settings, while Qubes > Manager does not. When listing attributes, qvm-prefs claims dom0 has a > VM directory, when it currently doesn'

Re: [qubes-devel] Why salt?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 03/19/2017 07:49 PM, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > On Mon, Mar 20, 2017 at 12:08:15AM +, Unman wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 05:31:05AM -0400, Jean-Philippe Ouellet >> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I am not criticizing the choice of sal

[qubes-devel] dom0 editable by qvm-prefs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Currently, qvm-prefs allows you to edit dom0 settings, while Qubes Manager does not. When listing attributes, qvm-prefs claims dom0 has a VM directory, when it currently doesn't. Is qvm-prefs' ability to modify dom0 desired behavior? - -- kulinacs

Re: [qubes-devel] Qubes packages updates, what has changed?

Hi Marek, sorry for the late reply, your replies often include lots of data to process… that's awesome just sometimes hard to find the time to :) Thanks a lot for all this information! On Tue, Mar 07, 2017 at 12:36:17AM +0100, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > Yes, we currently do not fill %ch

[qubes-devel] Re: Qubes-OS: a thunar script implementing custom actions for qvm-related things

On 03/20/2017 01:41 AM, Franco Bersani wrote: > > > Il 19/03/2017 19:33, Reg Tiangha ha scritto: >> On 2017-03-18 10:44 PM, hawk...@bitmessage.ch >> wrote: >>> On Sat, 18 Mar 2017 11:45:29 +0100 >>> Franco Bersani wrote: >>> Hi all, I'm Franco Bersani, a Gnu/Linux sysadmin who lives in I

[qubes-devel] Re: Qubes has Ryzen?

hcl-report for my cpu (amd 845) does say 'yes' for slat support, but its implementation of the current IOMMU isn't supported by the Xen 4.6 branch, so I guess whether Qubes 4 will support it will depend on when it's released, and whether Xen supports RyZen architecture by then / for that branch

Re: [qubes-devel] GSoC project: Analyzing the Qubes code base

On Saturday, March 18, 2017 at 8:02:25 PM UTC+5:30, Paras Chetal wrote: > > Hi Jean-Philippe, > > Really sorry for the delayed response, but yes, I am still very much > interested in the project. > I have been going through the arch-spec of qubes and have been studying > the code base of qubes-

[qubes-devel] Re: Why salt?

Sorry to piggyback on the thread, but I've been meaning to ask this. Have there been any notable usecases of end users using salt to coordinate Qubes VM lifecycles with salt, and orchestra/publish them into services? I imagine something like Joanna/Marek's

[qubes-devel] Qubes has Ryzen?

Hey guys, as you may know the hardware world has been all at with news of AMD's new Ryzen processors. They seem to provide phenomenal band for the buck, competing with Intel processors that are twice their cost in benchmarks such as Passmark. My question is whether a Ryzen processor would make