-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, Jan 25, 2018 at 01:05:04PM +0200, Ivan Mitev wrote: > Hi, > > IIRC in R3.2 VMs were started at boot time according to their dependency on > other VMs. Eg. - for a basic setup without whonix/tor/... - sys-net would > start first, then sys-firewall, and then other VMs configured to start at > boot time (in my case sys-usb, untrusted and work). > > In R4.0 (rc3) I see that all the VMs start in parallel at boot time. > /usr/lib/systemd/system/[email protected] don't show any qubes specific VM > dependency mechanism, and neither do systemctl list-dependencies nor > systemd-analyze critical-chain qubes-vm@sys-firewall (for instance) show a > dependency on sys-net. > > Q: is starting *all* the VMs in parallel the "new" way in R4.0 ?
Yes. Starting a VM (same as in R3.2) implicitly start also its network dependencies. What is improved in R4.0 that simultaneous requests for starting the same VM (for example both work VM and personal VM require starting sys-firewall) are queued and if VM is already running it doesn't try to start it again. > I'm asking because each time I reboot, sys-net consistently fails with the > error message below so I'm wondering whether I'm hitting a totally unrelated > bug (in which case I'll open an issue) or if VMs in 4.0 have to be started > in a specific order but the mechanism isn't implemented yet (or doesn't work > in my case): > > `Start failed: invalid argument: network device with mac [...] already > exists` This looks like the problem when sys-net is restarted while sys-firewall was still running. See here: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3163 https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1426 I guess what happened is: 1. sys-net starts 2. sys-firewall starts 3. sys-net crashes 4. sys-net fails to start again So, the question is why sys-net crashes. Take a look at /var/log/xen/console/guest-sys-net.log and /var/log/qubes/vm-sys-net.log. - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEhrpukzGPukRmQqkK24/THMrX1ywFAlppvy0ACgkQ24/THMrX 1yy5+gf9E6n4lFQzh8T6wMmrfMdcGxKE7PHDvhRvgi434n6Ykv+2/SRDIQmqYimQ XfAR2cHLfSVytopYO/P7EJl7bNqcsh1c4vI+RBShYy0UD8Lc4Vvq8lYxaTldIIz/ xiG+/wAhR4ealpmeSNWdFsL1ksQEItYzFtkUQIuKSNlUool9QHDnjTxbtWvq9sDL weq2ELAtD9Z/K6QxZ4Vlol5ORxFd1NNPlPtxQZZmTBe2vKT14eEFcvq5JPfLubkJ LRw1GG33g+V8KagdaRfgo6ZS70iOIX5anrh3pnsJtiTeZW89ClfGUMtt9ZhJuIZ0 n6zDAUy352Kt83pEGY/Nj5v6rga9rg== =x2xp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/20180125112741.GW2653%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
