On Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 6:37:47 AM UTC-5, Mike Keehan wrote: > > Ah, what a shame. It does seem as if your iommu is a problem. > > Without any other ideas, the only thing I can suggest is that you try > the latest Qubes 3.2 just to allow you to try out Qubes. It doesn't > require the vt-d stuff, so might work on your box. > > The other thing you can do is try googling for iommu and your cpu > together to see if others have had problems (not necessarily in > Qubes, just in general use). > > Mike.
Well, just to put this out there, it seems as if my CPU doesn't support SLAT and maybe that's why (I thought from intel's page it did). Installing the latest 3 stable and I don't get any errors about IOMMU like I did with 4, but just like with 4 I do have to disable vt-d in bios in order to boot to the installer. Unfortunately as soon as I turn vt-d back on, the system goes thru post, I see qubes start to boot and then after a minute (about when I think I'd see the disk password prompt) I get a message from my monitor that the input timing is wrong, which I've never seen on several other operating systems! Wierldy, I was able to reproduce this behavior by turning off vt-d, booting up fully and then was able to update without issues unlike in 4. Rebooted twice without issues, then turned vt-d back on and got the exact same behavior. So I guess I just try out using 3.2 without vt-d. I'll take a look around the users' group, but I don't see any real details on the qubes site for what the key differences are between 3 & 4 are, can anyone point me to something that will tell me how worth it (secure) that it is to use 3.2 instead of replacing hardware to run 4? -- 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/5f726c70-f3cb-4473-8b2f-77fbb7f4e3fd%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
