Hi Chris, On 1/7/19 9:04 PM, Chris Laprise wrote: > A Windows 7 vm I restored from R3.2 can boot. However I wanted to update > it with the new Qubes Windows Tools and it won't recognize the > --qubes-windows-tools volume. I also tried 'qvm-block attach' on the qwt > iso directly and Windows still won't see it.
I just tried to start some of my windows vms with --install-windows-tools but it triggers a bsod at boot time, while the vms work fine otherwise. Setting a loop device in dom0 with the windows tools iso and attaching it to a running win vm doesn't trigger a bsod but the disk that shows up in the disk manager is empty (17MB unallocated disk). You could try to copy the iso to the VM and mount it with an emulator. > Is there a way to get the Windows 7 vm fully updated Qubes drivers? Or > is it better to reinstall Windows instead (IIRC getting all the Windows > updates was difficult so I'd rather not repeat installation.) After spending way too much time with win VMs I'd advise you not to loose time with re-installation and newer Qubes Windows Tools; windows update'ing a new install takes at least half a day with multiple reboots (+ qvm-clone before each boot because it's not even sure that the VM will still boot after the last batch of windows updates). I never managed to update any of my win7 VMs - imported from R3.2 or created on R4.0 - that were running QWT 3.x with QWT 4.x. Comments in the huge QWT issue [1] show I'm not alone. FWIW I've been using Win7 VMs imported from R3.2 as well as Win7 VMs installed under R4.0 without any problem except the issues listed in [1] but I can live with them (note: the VMs created under R4.0 have QWT 3.x because I created them before Marek uploaded the newer version). You could also try the newer QWT with win10 instead of win7 but according to Marek they're a hit-or-miss too [2]. [1] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3585 [2] https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-doc/pull/752#pullrequestreview-185336141 -- 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/a09f7800-eeb4-53a0-7508-adf5f5351e3a%40maa.bz. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
