How to pass Yubikey to AppVM

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Attempt #2. I accidentally deleted my last post. The trash button is conveniently hidden right under the “show more” ellipsis button.

I have searched for other issues and could not find a relevant issue with answers.

I want to use a yubikey to open my keepass database in my vault qube.

Here’s what I tried:

  1. Opened vault’s Devices and looked for my yubikey. Couldn’t find it.
  2. Went to dom0 terminal, ran lsusb and took a note of my yubikey’s device ID, then searched for that ID in Devices. Couldn’t find it.
  3. Did research. Found a reddit article referencing this page, took a mental note of the warning that says “This page is intended for advanced users” and proceeded any way because I have no idea what advanced user means and I just want to fix my issue, then ran sudo qubesctl state.sls qvm.usb-keyboard and was locked out of my OS (usb input stopped working).

I am a little frustrated with using QubesOS because it feels like there aren’t always simple solutions to simple problems and are locked behind intimidating documentation. Something as simple as viewing your disks in dom0 in a modern, easy to use interface like Gnome Disks, or passing a USB device through to an appVM without need of a terminal.

I also had an issue connecting my external SSD to the vault qube, and I would have shared the screenshot of the error I got but I don’t know how to transfer files out of dom0, and I looked for the “send file to x qube” option in the right click menu but couldn’t find one.

Thanks.

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There is a tray icon for devices where you can attach them to appVM’s

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That icon doesn’t list my yubikey.