-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, May 17, 2018 at 05:57:09PM -0700, Qubes Guy wrote: > I've successfully used qvm-block (in Dom0) to attach USB drives to different > VMs (persistently), but I've noticed that Qubes (or Linux) sometimes gives > them to different devices over time. In other words, on Monday, my > BIG_TOSHIBA drive will be on /dev/sda, but it'll be assigned to /dev/sdj when > I boot up on Wednesday. This is throwing off my VeraCrypt / FreeFileSync > backup routine. (Another way of saying this is if I say "qvm-block attach > MyVM sys-usb:sda --persistent" when one of the three drives I use for MyVM is > currently attached to that, this will fail if Qubes moves that drive to a > different device-name (during boot) that isn't one of the three I previously > attached (when I go to start up that VM). > > I thought about persistently attaching all 10 of my USB drives to the VM > (some HDs, some flash, one SSD - I never use all of them at once - don't > ask!) because that would certainly fix this problem, but I get the following > error when I try to start the VM: "ERROR: Start failed: XML error: target > 'xvdi' duplicated for disk sources '/dev/sdc' and '/dev/sde', see > /var/log/libvirt/libxl/libxl-driver.log for details". > > Note that I did all the persistent attachment commands while the VM was not > running. If I detach all those, start the VM, do the persistent attachments, > shut down the VM and then restart it, I get an error along the lines of > "qrexec process failed to respond in 60 seconds". > > So, I guess I'm asking if there's a way to just persistently attach 2 or 3 > external USB drives and have them consistently available on the same device > names when I start the VM so VeraCrypt doesn't balk? (VeraCrypt ultimately > doesn't care what device a drive is attached to (it could be sda - sdj on my > system) because it shows the attached drive as "/media/user/BIG_TOSHIBA, but > if a drive isn't where it's supposed to be, that'll fail. > > In case you're curious, the error messages in > /var/log/libvirt/libxl/libxl-driver.log are meaningless to me, but if you > want me to post it, I can. > > Any help you guys can give me would be greatly appreciated! Thanks...
It isn't available yet, related issue: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3437 - -- Best Regards, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki Invisible Things Lab A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEzBAEBCAAdFiEEhrpukzGPukRmQqkK24/THMrX1ywFAlr/GRUACgkQ24/THMrX 1yzuqAf7Bw2L6SpZhPlLrhX20eFvagLuPpKbuMl/yVLMDhRBZqK86kIonC3Zvm1b eR6cTQ540PNHJiqL0uescJIHS7sHJDnnqC7Y0x12GIlEKWU+1pobRDZIwfErMiD/ 2FzJisSgk8tiLIwmyhcrWyUyVxuk6e1TpG5sVdUMb3lTqjiqPPChZBRlLFsYmraK PvBvY9DCeL6unSIUJqadxBtfeh5KDmSXauLS7T/vxVfEWbsNxI+ZrgGWPALkniZK MaXGp6hYrmnycl6o8xi74CWoGvwruhUrFOVxAn8hrFR0OA5PmeWVQjtRJ4j0okmL qXHoFWHbMVltipYLNvBYZANXcIc3bw== =BsRg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/20180518181901.GC20125%40mail-itl. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
