On Monday, November 27, 2017 at 1:19:04 AM UTC-8, Tom Zander wrote: > On Monday, 27 November 2017 07:03:51 CET Wael Nasreddine wrote: > > I'm trying to create a Standalone VM to run ArchLinux dedicated for work, > > but the VM fails to start, > > Where did you get the archlinux VM from?
I created a new VM, not based on any template (a menu option in the create new VM prompt). The VM never got passed Bios boot, similar to [0] without the window re-appearing; So I was never able to actually install it. > > I successfully managed to get this working over the weekend by; > a) following the basics (dns install etc) here (point3 & 4). > Don’t do point 5 - 10. > https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/building-archlinux-template/ > > b) follow the simplest guide from this report; > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3185 > > Then continue with points 10 - from the official docs. > Thanks for the tip, I might try that as well. > > Generally, after a weekend of intense working with qubes4r2 (testing) I > would say that creating new VMs based on a template and starting them is a > bit of a hit-and-miss. > I’m guessing that the daemon in dom0 has some race conditions that sometimes > leaves newly created vms broken. Stress the system less and it seems to work > more stable. > > -- > Tom Zander > Blog: https://zander.github.io > Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel [0]: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3185#issuecomment-338470156 -- 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/f5513f01-80ba-468f-8f1f-b1e2aabbda8f%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
