On Friday, 9 February 2018 09:04:25 UTC, Yuraeitha wrote: > 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.
Yes I know, I'm planning on helping... on a Windows 10 QWT workaround that is secure and follow Qubes OS philosophy. > > 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. I had tried and it was not working, but thanks for the suggestion. > > > > 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/e7b1f8c3-274c-4817-b443-3b3db17cf19e%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
