On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 7:19:41 AM UTC-6, stevemic...@gmail.com wrote: > On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 11:07:05 PM UTC-6, Grzesiek Chodzicki wrote: > > W dniu środa, 30 listopada 2016 04:26:19 UTC+1 użytkownik > > stevemic...@gmail.com napisał: > > > On Tuesday, November 29, 2016 at 9:07:08 PM UTC-6, Jean-Philippe Ouellet > > > wrote: > > > > It may make more sense to use qvm-block than qvm-usb here. Should in > > > > theory have a smaller attack surface and expose better-tested code > > > > paths. > > > > > > I must be missing something really basic that, as a noob, I don't > > > understand. > > > The command qvm-block -a Win7 dom0:sdb returns > > > ERROR: VM Win7 not running. > > > > > > This seems like a catch 22 since I can't start the VM because there's no > > > bootable file system yet nor can I attach a device to a not running VM. > > > > Don't use qvm-block, use --drive argument for the qvm-start command instead. > > qvm-start Win7 --drive=/path/to/usb/drive > > qvm-start Win7 --drive=/dev/sdb1 > Starting NetVM sys-firewall > Starting NetVM sys-net > Creating volatile image :/var/liv/qubes/servicevms/sys-net/volatile.img > Loading the VM (type=NetVM) > ERROR: PCI device 01:00.0 does not exist (domain sys-net) > > We're making progress!
Other notes: qvm-start Win7 --drive=/dev/sdb produces the same result as does qvm-start Win7 --cdrom=/dev/cdrom Fedora-23 is the template for sys-net -- 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/9bdd862e-4372-4dc7-bca9-8782f1eef77f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
