On Friday, May 18, 2018 at 2:19:09 PM UTC-4, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote: > -----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-----
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