Identifying label from within AppVM

[nicklaus...@gmail.com]

Is there any mechanism to identify what label the AppVM has from with in it? I'm looking for a (hopefully) automated way to make other colors match the label, i.e. have my terminal prompt and tmux bar be green in green AppVMs and red in red AppVMs.

[Unman]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 08:55:05PM -0700, nicklaus...@gmail.com wrote:
> Is there any mechanism to identify what label the AppVM has from with in it? I'm looking for a (hopefully) automated way to make other colors match the label, i.e. have my terminal prompt and tmux bar be green in green AppVMs and red in red AppVMs.
>

The red labelling is drawn from dom0 currently. I don't think there's a
way of pulling dom0 information from within a qube, so I think you will
be disappointed.
Although I cant see any reason why it wouldn't be possible to write label
information to he qube on boot, and then read that out. Might be worth
playing with this.

[nicklaus...@gmail.com]

I can't believe I didn't think of that. I'll try to work something out with qrexec and I'll post the code when I'm done in case anyone would like to use it. Thank you!

[nicklaus...@gmail.com]

I mocked up an example RPC here:
https://github.com/kulinacs/qubes-rpc-GetLabel
I'd love to get some feedback from anyone willing to take a look at it.

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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Use QREXEC_REMOTE_DOMAIN variable for calling VM name, instead of
getting it from that VM. Getting it from calling VM means that VM can
lie and get label for any VM, check what VM you have in the system etc.
Also an minor improvement - use `qvm-prefs $VMNAME label` instead of
grepping the output.

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Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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