On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 5:16:48 PM UTC, 3n7r...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Tuesday, September 13, 2016 at 12:23:15 AM UTC, 3n7r...@gmail.com wrote:
> > On Sunday, September 11, 2016 at 12:30:42 PM UTC, Marek 
> > Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
> > > I haven't tested this version on 3.1, but I think it should work. Just
> > > uploaded to current-testing.
> > 
> > Thanks!
> > 
> > Everything I tested is flawless **until the #updates stage**.
> > 
> > =================================
> > 
> > installation: no issues (up to #updates - see below)
> > 
> > multi-monitor: not tested
> > tested resolution: 4 megapixels
> > seamless mode: working
> > full desktop mode: working
> > 
> > secure clipboard: working
> > private storage: working
> > qvm-block: working
> > qvm-run: working
> > qvm-open-in-vm: working
> > qvm-copy-to-vm: working
> > auto-networking: working
> > 
> > =================================
> > 
> > Test Procedure
> > 
> > #install windows
> > 
> > QubesVMM: create templateHVM: "win-7"
> > netVM: none; vCPU: 4; RAM: 4GB
> > Private Storage: 10GB; System Storage: 40GB
> > 
> > qvm-start win-7 --cdrom=appVM:/path/to/iso
> > iso=en_windows_7_professional_with_sp1_x64_dvd_u_676939.iso
> > 
> > disable UAC
> > disable updates
> > enable auto-logon
> > bcdedit /set testsigning on
> > shutdown
> > 
> > #install QWT
> > 
> > qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-dom0-current-testing 
> > qubes-windows-tools
> > clone win-7 to win-7-qwt-1, win-7-qwt-2
> > 
> > for each qwt clone:
> > qvm-prefs -s win-7-qwt-? qrexec_timeout 600
> > qvm-start win-7-qwt-? --install-windows-tools
> > 
> > [note re: PV disk drivers. For my first test (with just 1 vm), I disabled 
> > PV disk drivers and experienced 5-6 bsod's and/or permanent yellow hangs. 
> > No idea if there is any causality there. Reason for enabling PV disk is 
> > that installing .Net package required 30 minutes just to see any movement 
> > in the progress bar. (Might not all be due to PV disk - slowness might be 
> > causing other things to timeout?) With PV disk enabled, the update took 
> > less than 10 secs. I might guess that many bug reports are due to the 
> > INSANELY slow non-PV disk ops being mistaken for system hangs... To be 
> > fair, Virtualbox similarly has bad disk performance prior to installing 
> > Guest Additions. Surprisingly, no issues at all installing PV disk.]
> > 
> > #update Windows **Problems here**
> > 
> > wsusoffline update
> > 
> > [future steps:
> >   enable netVM
> >   windows activation
> >   windows update
> > ]
> > 
> > =================================
> > 
> > Made it to the end of the offline update process with 2 identical clones 
> > following the exact same procedure. One boots and is ready to go. The other 
> > received dom0 notice about outdated GUI protocol. Will not complete boot 
> > after repeated attempts. I can't make any sense of the logs - can't even 
> > figure out which ones are relevant. Just to rule out any difference in 
> > procedure that I might have overlooked, I have trashed both clones and 
> > brought 2 fresh clones to just prior to the update process. Please let me 
> > know how to proceed, ie which logs to collect.
> > 
> > One oddity that I noticed was that the Qubes VM Window name doesn't appear 
> > to be consistent. For example, with a Windows TemplateHVM named "win-7" and 
> > a user/domain of user@host; the name of the Windows window will alternate? 
> > between "[win-7] win-7" and "[win-7] host". Is this noteworthy at all?
> > 
> > I don't envy you Rafał. Thanks for working on this.
> 
> 
> So currently, I have 2 Windows HVM Templates, named win7-qwt1 & win7-qwt2. 
> They were installed with networking off so they should be identical. QWT 
> (complete install) was installed without any errors.
> 
> I've been starting and shutting down each of them repeatedly with these 
> results (Qubes logs attached):
> 
> win7-qwt1-1-fail: no desktop loaded; hanging on yellow state
> win7-qwt1-2-success: successful boot to desktop
> win7-qwt1-3-fail: no desktop; qrexec error
> win7-qwt1-4 success: successful boot to desktop
> (no logs) #5: success; bsod on shutdown (max cpu) (named "win7-qwt1")
> (no logs) #6: success (named "host")
> (no logs) #7: success (named "host")
> 
> win7-qwt2-1-success
> win7-qwt2-2-fail: hanging yellow
> win7-qwt2-3-success
> (no logs) #4: fail
> (no logs) #5: fail
> (no logs) #6: success (named "host")
> (no logs) #7: fail
> (no logs) #8: fail
> (no logs) #9: success (named "win7-qwt2")
> 
> As stated before, the VM window title is unpredictable - sometimes, the 
> window is named "[win7-qwt1] win7-qwt1" and sometimes it's "[win7-qwt1] 
> host". This is true of both vm's. A race condition? I am inclined to suggest 
> that the VMs function more properly when they are named "host". Also, after 
> all the starts and stops, I've got a leftover VM window that wasn't cleaned 
> up properly and can't be closed.

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