For what it's worth, I'm having the exact same issues. On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Ed Welch <e...@edjusted.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone, new to qubes, love it! > > Getting going with linux I found pretty straight forward, no issues. > > Trying to get a Windows 7 HVM template created, not going so well. > > Thought I would post some of the issues I've had for posterity and also > see if I can get some help. > > > If you are like me and don't generally read long winded posts, please at > least scroll to my QUESTION at the bottom :) > > > Most of the instructions tell you to create a VM, however, none of them > tell you to increase the default VM specs. For win 7 64 it seems you want > to increase the RAM to 4096MB and primary partition to 40960MB (40G) I know > for a fact 20G is not enough to update windows 7 sp1 to latest. > > You'll want to do this before anything else because it's more difficult to > do after you get started > > > Then I ran into the xen/cirrus video driver issue which causes windows to > freeze on the startup screen, found this issue with workaround: > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2488 > > This workaround does the trick, but I think it's important to note a few > additional steps, after the last setup reboot and BEFORE YOU SHUTDOWN > windows and try to install the windows guest additions. > > MAKE SURE to enable login without password through the netplwiz tool, it > seemed like this was the crucial step in avoiding this issue: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/qubes-users/Vbga8Z-DjHE/GVHIWIob5uIJ > > Also, users mentioned in that thread the importance of adding more RAM, > however, for me it seemed that enabling login without password was the step > that avoided putting your VM in a totally unrecoverable BSOD loop. > > Following the wiki instructions, I then installed the windows tools from > the qubes-dom0-current-testing repo (and also updated the qrexec_timeout to > 300 seconds) then switching back to the modified instructions for working > around the cirrus/xen bug I was able to boot into windows and install the > windows tools. > > > This is where I hit my next big stumbling point, during the installation > the PV drivers prompt you to reboot. DO NOT REBOOT until the installation > finishes, I did eventually see on this page 'Xen PV driver components may > display a message box asking for reboot during installation – it’s safe to > ignore them and defer the reboot.' > > Really this needs to be promoted to https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/w > indows-appvms/ IMO and in big bold letters DO NOT REBOOT until the > installation is completed kind of thing. If you reboot before it finishes > this is really unrecoverable and it's easier to just blow away the vm and > start again... > > > Ok, so now we get to where I'm stuck, my vm is installed, > qubes-windows-tools 3.2.2-3 is installed, however as soon as I start the > thing, it boots and the display immediately goes away, found this issue: > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1896 which matches the > behavior I'm seeing, however, this was fixed some time ago, but not totally > sure when it was released?? > > > My second, issue, which may actually be causing the first, seems to best > be described in this thread: https://groups.google.com/d/to > pic/qubes-users/4OgwojFK-sI/discussion > > Specifically I'm having the issue in the last comment, the only way I can > get any UI is if I boot with --debug, and when I do, I often see that error > linked: 'The GUI agent that runs in the VM 'win7' implements outdated > protocol (0:0), and must be updated. > > > After reading through that thread, several people were mentioning that > 3.2.2-3 has seemed to make things less stable. > > > What I would like to do, is install the previous version of > qubes-windows-tools, but try as I might to manipulate the qubes-dom0-update > script into doing so I have not been able to do this, I'm not even sure the > older versions are kept in the repos?? > > QUESTION: Is there a way to install a specific version (whatever was > previous to 3.2.2-3) of qubes windows tools? > > > Thanks! > > Ed > > -- > 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/ms > gid/qubes-users/821726de-f5c1-d6a9-b15e-078e1f9cc56d%40edjusted.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Sent from my Desktop -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. 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