Re: [qubes-devel] R4.0 - question about VM startup ordering during boot

2018-01-27 Thread Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 02:21:35PM +0200, Ivan Mitev wrote: > On 01/25/18 13:27, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > > So, the question is why sys-net crashes. Take a look at > > /var/log/xen/console/guest-sys-net.log and > >

[qubes-devel] Re: [UPDATE] QSB #37: Information leaks due to processor speculative execution bugs (XSA-254, Meltdown & Sepctre)

2018-01-27 Thread Ed
On 01/24/2018 04:29 AM, Andrew David Wong wrote: ## Qubes 3.2 Previously, we had planned to release an update for Qubes 3.2 that would have made almost all VMs run in PVH mode by backporting support for this mode from Qubes 4.0. Out of curiosity, is this still going to happen? I would love

Re: [qubes-devel] R4.0-rc4 installation image considerations

2018-01-27 Thread Ivan Mitev
Hi Andrew, On 01/27/18 15:31, Andrew Clausen wrote: Hi Ivan, On 27 January 2018 at 12:57, Ivan Mitev wrote: I don't see the benefit of using a DVD (we're talking about USB DVD readers here) but maybe it's only me being thick... If the machine used to copy or checksum the

Re: [qubes-devel] R4.0-rc4 installation image considerations

2018-01-27 Thread Andrew Clausen
Hi Ivan, On 27 January 2018 at 12:57, Ivan Mitev wrote: > I don't see the benefit of using a DVD (we're talking about USB DVD > readers here) but maybe it's only me being thick... > If the machine used to copy or checksum the payload/iso is compromised, > then IMO it's already

Re: [qubes-devel] R4.0-rc4 installation image considerations

2018-01-27 Thread Ivan Mitev
On 01/27/18 13:33, Sebastian Götte wrote: On 01/22/2018 08:33 AM, Peter Todd wrote: Note that flash drives with physical write protect switches are available, such as the Kanguru FlashBlu30 line. While better than a regular r/w USB drive, I would not actually trust these. There's only going