On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 9:25:52 AM UTC+1, Alex Dubois wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to get Windows installed on R4. > > qvm-create win7 --class StandaloneVM --label blue > qvm-prefs win7 | grep virt > it is pvh > qvm-prefs win7 virt_mode hvm (I suspect doc needs to be updated here) > qvm-start win7 --cdrom=sys-usb:sr0 > I get 4 lines SeaBios, last one being "Probing EDD (edd=off to disable!... > ok" - Screenshot attached. > qvm-ls > win7 is halted > > I saw ticket https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3055 providing > the --cdrom option. > > Am I missing something?
Right now "most" things work in Qubes 4, but many of them have one of the multiple of approaches to do the same thing, where some of these multiple approaches are not working. Extra approaches to do the same thing, may have lower priority if it works if done in a different way. These issues will eventually get fixed, it's just a matter for the developers to advance down the list of priorities of fixes. For example, sometimes using the terminal is better, while other times the GUI works better. Mostly the terminal works better, but there are cases where the GUI works better than the terminal commands. Your issue might be one of those case, "Especially!" considering the GUI to boot from a CDROM/DVD has been re-made, and the whole admin panel/python code beneath it. So chances are that the GUI works better, since they put focused effort into this GUI tool, and "may" have postponed terminal fixes for later lower priorities. What I recommend is that you shutdown your Win7 VM --> go to the VM's graphical settings --> Advanced tab --> pick the "Boot qube from CDROM" button. Try give it a try, see if it works or not. If it doesn't work: Then it might be because this feature has an overall lower priority to get fixed compared to other things in Qubes 4 atm. Perhaps other suggestions can find a way to bypass this issue, keep checking this thread over the coming days for anyone posting. Also Qubes 4 will probably not be final release stage before both GUI and terminal works for the most important features. Until then, you have to find work-arounds for things like these. -- 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/ccaed5da-80da-4554-b3e0-4679a38697a0%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
