On Monday, May 29, 2017 at 3:13:32 PM UTC-7, Eric Duncan wrote: > Thanks Vit and Dave C! > > @Dave: > > Yep, USB sticks get too hot - and the USB2 sticks I tried were far too slow > for my taste. > > I have a couple of these laying around from previous laptop builds: > > https://www.amazon.com/Transcend-128GB-MSA370-mSATA-TS128GMSA370/dp/B00K64HXAA/?tag=eduncan911-20 > > Was going to use one and the smallest msata usb3 adapter I could find, like > this: > > https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6V83ZJ7496 > > But didn't want to buy that, and go through the trouble of setting things up > and migrating over if it was going to have problems. > > Hearing that you have a multi-machine setup, with just a tweak it seems, > assures me. > > Ordering today! > > Thank you guys! > Eric > > On Monday, May 29, 2017 at 8:59:16 AM UTC-4, Dave C wrote: > > On Saturday, May 27, 2017 at 12:23:37 AM UTC-7, Vít Šesták wrote: > > > I've asked some slightly similar question like a month ago. I was told I > > > should run dracut without hostonly mode in order to have all the modules > > > I need. > > > > > > Your case is a bit harder. You would need to either run dracut after any > > > kernel update (without this, it might make Qubes unbootable on other > > > machines than the one you have updated it from) or reconfigure dracut > > > (like edit something in /etc) if possible. > > > > > > Regards, > > > Vít Šesták 'v6ak' > > > > To always run dracut without hostonly, make a file > > /etc/dracut.conf.d/no-hostonly.conf, and in there put: > > > > hostonly="no" > > > > > > I do the above to have a portable Qubes that I can boot on multiple > > machines. Mostly this works fine, but occasional issues: > > > > * If you ever assign PCI devices, those will of course change from machine > > to machine. > > * I find USB sticks get hot, and slow. I recommend installing on a > > portable SSD instead (which can plug into USB port). > > * I have a laptop which boots incredibly slowly. There is a roughly 2 > > minute delay in the boot process. I suspect it is waiting for PS/2, but > > the machine has none. Although I'm not sure, and not sure how to > > troubleshoot. > > > > -Dave
I'm using an SSD similar to this, which is easily portable: https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newegg.com%2FProduct%2FProduct.aspx%3FItem%3D9SIA6V83ZJ7496&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNEhmEmGAIBVz5A7wE34AkTjUr60zw (I don't see the brand I have featured on Amazon anymore.) One nuisance is when moving that from one machine to another, I typically have to make a netvm per computer I boot, because they use different hardware. After moving the drive to a new machine, I have to stop the firewall and netvm, switch which netvm the firewall users, then start an appvm. -Dave -- 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/e2ccdacb-c619-4e6b-bd39-0706d726ad61%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
