From 025fb066c34d0b48c760508420e008e56e90213d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joanna Rutkowska Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 15:19:01 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] WindowsAppVms changed How to use Windows AppVMs --- WindowsAppVms.md | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/WindowsAppVms.md b/WindowsAppVms.md index ed8a5f63..4bd17338 100644 --- a/WindowsAppVms.md +++ b/WindowsAppVms.md @@ -50,7 +50,29 @@ qvm-prefs Using Windows AppVMs in seamless mode (Qubes R2 Beta 3 and later) ----------------------------------------------------------------- -TODO +Once you start a Windows-based AppVM with Qubes Tools installed, you can easily start individual applications from the VM (note the `-a` switch used here, which will auto-start the VM if it is not running): + +``` {.wiki} +qvm-run -a my-win7-appvm explorer.exe +``` + +\ + +Also, the inter-VM services work as usual -- e.g. to request opening a document or URL in the Windows AppVM from another VM: + +``` {.wiki} +[user@work ~]$ qvm-open-in-vm work-win7 roadmap.pptx +``` + +``` {.wiki} +[user@work ~]$ qvm-open-in-vm work-win7 http://www.invisiblethingslab.com +``` + +... just like in case of Linux AppVMs. Of course all those operations are governed by central policy engine running in Dom0 -- if the policy + +Inter-VM file copy and clipboard works for Windows AppVMs the same way as for Linux AppVM (except that we don't provide a command line wrapper, `qvm-copy-to-vm` in Windows VMs) -- to copy files from Windows AppVMs just right-click on the file in Explorer, and choose: Send To-\> Other AppVM. + +\ Forcing Windows AppVM into full desktop mode --------------------------------------------