I'll probably have an opportunity to verify some laptop's compatibility. My idea is to boot Qubes OS or its installer from USB and then to do some checks (most notably VT-d compatibility and USB controller topology). It should be something done in reasonable time and without installing QubesOS on the machine. How should I do that?
a. Boot the installer. It however does not seem to contain qubes-hcl-report (just unpacked it), so it does not seem to be easy to check VT-d this way. (I know the CPU supports it, but I can just guess if MoBo/BIOS do too.) b. Boot LiveUSB. It is outdated and unsupported and AFAIR with some known bugs that could prevent booting if I am unlucky. So, this might work, but it might easily fail. c. Install QubesOS on USB stick (and disable usbvm) and boot it. I am not sure if this will work when QubesOS is booted on a different hardware than it was installed with. I see some potential incompatibilities, e.g., wrong PCI device ids assigned to sys-net or too high vCPU count assigned to a VM (target laptop has fewer CPU cores) or addresses in fstab/crypttab. While the mentioned issues seem to be manageable (remove all PCI devices and fix vCPU count if it is too high and check fstab/crypttab), I am not sure if they are exhaustive. Maybe this will work well. (After all, I just need dom0 to boot, not other VMs.) No option seems to be perfect. What would you suggest to try? Regards, Vít Šesták 'v6ak' -- 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/96a8a5c9-8395-431a-81fd-1351463f81fe%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
