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libvirt
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C++ Exit-Time Destructors
Only in trivial cases. The problem is when another part of the program holds a function pointer (eg callback) into the library which has been unloaded.
libvirt has long been linked with -Wl,nodelete to avoid this:
https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/commit/8e44e5593eb9b89f...
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Using baremetal Asahi Linux (Ubuntu) on M1 Mac Minis for homelab
So, next I setup cockpit and cockpit-machines, which works to create VMs (via cockpit-machines) but they use tcg/qemu i.e. emulation and no KVM based h/w acceleration - my test VMs were very slow! I figured out while qemu+KVM works on command line, it doesn't work and the culprit was libvirt! After discussing with the good folks on #asahi channel and with tobhe (Ubuntu-Asahi creator), I gathered enough evidence to conclude libvirtd doesn't know the "right" qemu commands to exec and logged my findings to the libvirt project https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/365 (which can probably use some of the community noise, to expedite the fix).
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linux to linux vms... gpu accel?
Nvidia 510 introduced a regression you can see the relevant issues here and here
- Qemu 7.2.2: command line syntax in libvirt domain changed
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Red Hat considers Xorg “deprecated” and will remove it in the next RHEL
The work to split into multiple daemons started a few years ago.
https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/blob/9b8bb536ff999fa61e...
- Docker v23.0.2 released -- AppArmor issue fixed?
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Guest Has Not Initialized the display (yet)
There have been a few complaints online in the Arch and Gitlab forums regarding this issue. https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/issues/410
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How to fix onboard Intel Bluetooth Error Code 10 on Windows guest
The issue stems from a change in libvirt. Libvirt is responsible for parsing all your VM's XML and turning it into a QEMU command. Somewhere between libvirt version 6.6 and version 6.9, there was a slight change in the way USB devices are passed to QEMU, and obviously libvirt followed suit. As a result, some USB passthrough configurations, such as the MacOS one in the thread, as well as the onboard bluetooth for windows suffered errors.
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Libvirt 8.2 - <qemu:deviceOverride>
It's a bug, fix is upstream: https://gitlab.com/libvirt/libvirt/-/commit/04736179b283f55f62616a20a1ec95c665aab8ca
- Fedora Guest On KDE + Wayland have poor performance with virtio (virgl + spice)
sbctl
- Show HN: Sbctl – Secure Boot key manager
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Show HN: SSH-tpm-agent – SSH agent for TPMs
No, this isn't true nor correct.
Secure Boot and TPM do offer tangible security benefits and is security features you can take ownership of.
Secure Boot allows your own key hierarchy, and TPM allows you to take ownership.
The linked boot disk isn't really proof that Secure Boot is useless. If you don't set a MOKManager password (as you should), and you change the security state of the machine while present at the keyboard. Yes you can boot things.
This is intended to make sure people can actually decide to trust things. And having insecure defaults makes this less useful. Not very surprising.
TPMs could also prevent attacks like this on your machine.
Incidentally I've invested quite a bit of time in making user-friendly Secure Boot tooling as well. https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl
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Enabling secure boot for your Arch installation is very easy now with the "sbctl" tool
No problem! The sbctl package ships with a pretty extensive hook out of the box (https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl/blob/master/contrib/pacman/ZZ-sbctl.hook). It's been very reliable for automatically resigning .efi executables after updates for me.
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sbctl fails to find EFI system partition
sbctl verify returns failed to find EFI system partition despite it definitely is there. It's the same issue as this but remounting or restarting doesn't fix it.
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Millions of PC Motherboards Were Sold With a Firmware Backdoor
lol
- The vendor-locking is for your own safety. Do not resist.
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Let's make a motherboard review guide
Must actually prevent unsigned images from booting
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[Kinoite/Silverblue]Decrypt LUKS volumes with a TPM on Fedora 35+
sudo dnf install asciidoc golang -y VERSION=0.11 cd /tmp curl -L "https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl/releases/download/${VERSION}/sbctl-${VERSION}.tar.gz" | tar zxvf - cd "sbctl-${VERSION}" make sudo make install cd ~
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Setting up secure boot while dual booting Windows 11 and Arch Linux
By far the easiest is to use sbctl to generate, install and use keys to sign your efi images. You can use mkinitcpio to build the unified kernels automatically and a pacman trigger to rerun the sbctl signing when the kernel is updated. Pretty straightforward (once you've done it once).
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Intel OEM Private Key Leak: A Blow to UEFI Secure Boot Security
The question is whether you have any UEFI drivers or not. If they're in the ESP you can just look there to check, but UEFI drivers can also be loaded from PCI cards or baked in the firmware itself.
If you're using a TPM for Secure Boot, you can use the command in https://github.com/Foxboron/sbctl/wiki/FAQ#option-rom to know for sure.
What are some alternatives?
CloverBootloader - Bootloader for macOS, Windows and Linux in UEFI and in legacy mode
mortar - Framework to join Linux's physical security bricks.
ubuntu-asahi - Native Ubuntu installations for Apple silicon hardware
mkinitcpio - Arch Linux initramfs generation tools (read-only mirror)
swtpm - Libtpms-based TPM emulator with socket, character device, and Linux CUSE interface.
zorin-exec-guard - Zorin Exec Guard shows a warning when attempting to run unknown Linux or Windows executables and offers more trusted alternatives.
BootDuet - Boot sector program for booting Intel's EDK Developer's UEFI Emulation (DUET) from hard disk with LBA.
cryptboot - Encrypted boot partition manager with UEFI Secure Boot support
wayland-explorer - Easily browse and read Wayland protocols documentation
mainline - Install mainline kernel packages from kernel.ubuntu.com
Moby - The Moby Project - a collaborative project for the container ecosystem to assemble container-based systems
simple-arch-installer