[BitVisor-users-en:11] Re: Howto for Windows

[Katsuya MATSUBARA]

 Hi Sandy,

From: Sandy Herman <sandyherman at gmx.net>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 20:27:41 +0100

> Now I could install Bitvisor on "/dev/sda2" via GRUB2. It worked,
> Bitvisor asks the password, but the disk "/dev/sda1" remains
> unencrypted.
> sda1: LBA(63,467419135)
> Attached my "bitvisor.conf"

 You must enable the ATA driver if your disk is connected
 through SATA/PATA.

 vmm.driver.ata=1
---
 Katsuya Matsubara / IGEL Co., Ltd
 matsu at igel.co.jp

> Am 13.11.2012 08:52, schrieb Katsuya MATSUBARA:
>>   Hi Sandy,
>>
>> From: Sandy Herman <sandyherman at gmx.net>
>> Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 22:53:38 +0100
>>
>>> Is there a chance to encrypt the harddisk running an
>>> Ubuntu live System?
>>> I can install Bitvisor (with background-encryption-patch),
>>> but the harddisk is not encrypted - and remains unencrypted.
>>   Please see the attached file.
>>   This is an example configuration for the background encyption.
>>
>>   This configuration is 'defconfig'-sytled.
>>   You should modify the 'storage' section in your defconfig,
>>   that exists at root of the source code tree, using the example.
>>   Especilly you must adjust the 'data_lba', 'keys', 'lba-low' and
>>   'lba-high' parameters for your environment.
>>   Then you can rebuild bitvisor.elf with the modified defconfig.
>>
>>   You cannot use the boot/login-simple and the boot/login
>>   if you want to validate 'defconfig' since bitvisor.conf overwrites
>>   the whole parameters defined by defconfig.
>>   If you would like to use the login authentication, you can try to
>>   rewrite the example for bitvisor.conf.
>>   Unfortunately I have never tried to enable/configure the
>>   background encyption with bitvisor.conf, but it must work.
>>
>>   Thanks,
>> ---
>>   Katsuya Matsubara / IGEL Co. Ltd.
>>   matsu at igel.co.jp
>>
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