Is there any way to boot an HVM from an external USB drive? I would have thought that simply setting the "additional drive" on a new HVM to a USB device in another HVM (or dom0) would have allowed it to boot from that drive.
I have a USB drive that contains a Linux system (partition table, /boot, /) that I wouldn't mind booting under Qubes on occasion. I tried creating an HVM and setting the additional drive to be that whole drive, but upon startup it just complains that there is no bootable drive. Hitting F12 for the boot menu doesn't let you be more specific than CDROM/Hard disk, so you can't specifically choose which hard disk. (Also, hitting F12 for the boot menu on time takes Ninja-like skills; is there any way to make that easier?) I can't see the utility of "additional drive" as an "hd" if you can't boot from it. I feel like I'm missing something obvious. I also tried removing the existing references to the root/volatile/private .img files via qvm-prefs (hoping to encourage booting from the "additional drive") but it wouldn't let me. (I was going to make a suggestion that qemu-img be available in dom0 for some unsupported recovery-style operations, but I see it is there under /usr/lib/xen/bin. Good to know, for emergencies/recovery, and it does make sense not to have it on the path or in an obvious spot, to avoid encouraging unsupported and potentially dangerous actions. Good enough.) Also, just FYI, I was able to recover some template/app VM's from /lost+found in a toasted Qubes installation (due to that root USB issue I was having) by simply creating similar VMs in a new Qubes installation, and copying the .img files to the appropriate /var/lib/qubes/ directory. I'm doing backups now to avoid such needs in the future. :) Thanks. JJ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/f614bbbee1007c13fbbd1f131d1a132c.webmail%40localhost. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
