Just received a new (to me) Dell Precision M4600. HCL reports perfect support and that has been my experience thus far, just a few minor nits to report.
I let the machine run on battery today to see what condition its in - there is an alert about low power at 20%, but below 8% the power meter disappears from the Notification Area, and it does not reappear if wall power is connected. A reboot put it back. I let it run down again, plugged wall power in once the indicator disappeared, I've watched it for about fifteen minutes, indicator has not returned despite it charging. If you edit the Name & label for a VM there is a reference integrity issue - the name gets connected to nothing, while the files are left on disk. If you attempt to rename it back to the original name, the system complains about pre-existing files. I guess regular users wouldn't make this mistake, but this is the first time I've touched Qubes since 2.1, so I stumbled before recalling I should just create new VMs from templates. The installation of Windows 7 HVM worked as advertised, specifically REQUIRING multiple manual starts to finish the process. Network device was missing at first, it turned up a reboot or two after I expected to see it. Graphics performance is shaky, feels like a late 90s 486 class machine. This makes me sad, would be great to not have to fiddle with dual boot. My motivation for this was trying to build a system for investigative work - Chrome /w Hunch.ly, Maltego, and Sentinel Visualizer running under Windows 7. Poor Win7 performance and badly behaved Java for Linux VMs put this out of reach, but there are many other things I can do with Qubes. This machine will end up dual booting Qubes/Windows, as soon as I can afford an msata disk for the internal slot. -- 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 [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-users/6fbc96ab-28e2-43fe-84c5-eb38da46046f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
