On Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022 at 12:51 AM, Dan <anonymous....@pm.me> wrote:
> I implemented my idea, but I also stopped using the USB keyboard and mouse. > > Now I have sys-usb with the USB controller PCI device attached and sys-net > with the USB-Ethernet device attached from sys-usb. The only glitch is that > on boot up, sys-net will not start at all if the USB-Ethernet device is not > available, but sys-usb starts after sys-net when they are both set to > autostart. I think the autostart ordering for VMs is essentially arbitrary > (possibly alphabetical). > > How can I specify an ordering for VM startup or a dependency on a USB device? I'll document how I solved this. First, I tried creating: /etc/systemd/system/qubes-vm@sys-net.service.d/60_afterusb.conf with content: [Unit] Requires=qubes-vm@sys-usb.service After=qubes-vm@sys-usb.service For reasons I didn't investigate, this wasn't sufficient. sys-net still failed to autostart. Then I added: /etc/systemd/system/qubes-vm@sys-usb.service.d/60_beforenet.conf with content: [Unit] Before=qubes-vm@sys-net.service This caused sys-net to autostart, but sys-firewall still failed to autostart. Then I added: /etc/systemd/system/qubes-vm@sys-firewall.service.d/50_autostart.conf with content: [Unit] Before=systemd-user-sessions.service After=qubes-vm@sys-net.service and then I finally had a system that would boot up to a running sys-usb, sys-net, and sys-firewall. As a reminder, all the systemd configuration came after doing: qvm-usb attach --persistent sys-net sys-usb:<ethernet-device> Bare minimum requirements to get a 1. working system 2. with a USB Ethernet device 3. with separate sys-net and sys-usb If there is any value in having separate sys-net and sys-usb with USB Ethernet devices, I recommend fixing this in future releases/installers, as USB Ethernet is probably the second most common way to connect to the internet from laptops, after WiFi. Laptops don't come with PCI based Ethernet devices anymore. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/FPlm-oKmNq9OH6btLvWXS0fXK2HvW9s5TGPajrgAZxRJkY5TsLVbfYobKbI4GlWmjvBhD1lt4jC2EnrI1K1ErNvNO8Gc6ZW0p0nBH1oZDxs%3D%40pm.me.
