On Sunday, March 25, 2018 at 7:20:29 AM UTC-4, awokd wrote:
> On Sun, March 25, 2018 3:07 am, sevas wrote:

> > I had qubes installed without it. I wanted to install android. Android
> > didnt recognize the virtual machines. So, I plugged in a 2nd disk. I was
> > able to qvm-pci attach my SSD. Android recognized it and was able to
> > install.
> 
> I'm surprised this actually worked without trouble!

lol!

 
> The options I see for you are:
> 
> A) Go back to 3.2 with the emulated disk controller Android can detect
> (see https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3651).

Not a chance!
 
> B) Wait for someone to add a feature to 4.0/4.1 to change the emulated
> disk controller type per VM (or find out if there is a more direct means
> to change it). This would let you add both your drives to the same LVM
> pool and encryption, and use regular drive images for your HVM.
> 
> C) Dedicate and passthrough the single SSD only for your Android HVM
> without encryption etc.

Im now thinking about doing this with an SD card. Do you think that would work?
Well, Im going to test it tomorrow. 


> I'm not exactly sure I follow what you've done to this point, so that
> might be the safest approach. Fdisk the SSD (assuming there's nothing you
> need to keep on it), shutdown your computer, physically disconnect/remove
> the SSD, power on and reinstall Qubes if needed. Then power back down and
> reattach it. You can then use it with one of the above options. If option
> B, suggest manually setting up cryptsetup on it with the same password and
> then a separate LVM pool.

I could encrypt it from within qubes and decrypt it before use with VM, right?
Qubes manages encryption and android is none the wiser. 

-With Qubes on 2 drives: 
--Ive tried trimfs and
--allow-discard on root and luks
--shrinking the pool= no info on google about this
--qvm-create BIGVM && dd if=/dev/random of=/BIGFILE.img count=250GB && 
qvm-remove BIGVM >>shrink pool
----no cigar

>>I'm not exactly sure I follow what you've done to this point,

PVcreate: Qubes installation with one m.2 only. 
Added SSD later. 
$ sudo pvcreate /dev/sdb
#Error device not found (or ignored by filtering)

Am I supposed to use $ sudo pvcreate /dev/sdb1 ?
I wanted to PV the entire device and not just the partition(s). 

$ nano /etc/lvm/lvm.conf
>#global-filtering = [devices] #No change.
>global-filtering = [sdb] #did not fix.
>global-filtering = [devices] #did not fix, of course. 'devices' is just 
>generic for 'add your device here'. But I un-commented it anyway. And 
>restarted. 

Im pretty sure Im just misunderstanding the pvcreate tool. I will read up on 
the 
correct methods tomorrow too. But some people were using 'global-filtering=sdb' 
and they could suddenly 'pvcreate sdb' device without partition without errors. 

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