Re: [qubes-users] Checking laptop compatibility using boot from USB drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Vít Šesták: > I'll probably have an opportunity to verify some laptop's > compatibility. My idea is to boot Qubes OS or its installer from USB > and then to do some checks (most notably VT-d compatibility and USB > controller topology). It should be something done in reasonable time > and without installing QubesOS on the machine. How should I do that? > > [...] > c. Install QubesOS on USB stick (and disable usbvm) and boot it. I > am not sure if this will work when QubesOS is booted on a different > hardware than it was installed with. I see some potential > incompatibilities, e.g., wrong PCI device ids assigned to sys-net or > too high vCPU count assigned to a VM (target laptop has fewer CPU > cores) or addresses in fstab/crypttab. While the mentioned issues > seem to be manageable (remove all PCI devices and fix vCPU count if > it is too high and check fstab/crypttab), I am not sure if they are > exhaustive. Maybe this will work well. (After all, I just need dom0 > to boot, not other VMs.) dom0 should work alright if you switch dracut to no-hostonly mode, which (mainly) adds all available kernel modules to the initrd: # echo 'hostonly="no"' >/etc/dracut.conf.d/no-hostonly.conf # dracut --regenerate-all --force Rusty -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- iQJ8BAEBCgBmBQJZDRwIXxSAAC4AKGlzc3Vlci1mcHJAbm90YXRpb25zLm9w ZW5wZ3AuZmlmdGhob3JzZW1hbi5uZXQ4NEI1OUJDRkM2MkIxMjlGRTFCMDZEMDQ0 NjlENzhGNDdBQUYyQURGAAoJEEadePR6ryrf0XEP/0rhfOaoIkBxtfH33bPan3iR j7e8THXJZrPR204XwKE6/IWuBEjXEFZ6p5uKO63/cBXCHBiyd+EGnpGBlkOF4S/h CpHVsDcar37nAVse2219uB49d5fYS9rAaZBANRVep9gaSJk7ku5xE7HtXD/1Zsm0 YxsgSnJixhb0TuLD8o4mMzvKGQ1hm1Uw5d9Z5spkCEkI18Xg87kSDhy1n0PdX9og 56XWB8iZkGnCNtSbrizHnBMEopwmDRwXXkGqs4ga/9tAVDa4SLA4nEoQ8jBbMkmS VreSzvJGHv+jnrskE/qQwG8+vlXmexpAx+9gLqGKORxfBxdyXq02EOI0lqulT+Gn +Zc+DN7fSiOa5F5im90ZrYmo0YW40n2FJy6tSJxGGweSJ2ZfqMhuKv+5CfM2Evzb IKfliH9xmPFGw5l4o7RLbHJNiBD2/ZWrOniRFRRdpl2YXVipmuz/TwLyBD345O+S tajtccZdoFbZWghllBv3fK+yLNQF00e203U2SYSG5CEPK6E/uxFOAqskd+8Szir5 pqpms0CF67E1BEJLS0AtONWbT0BVC2RBqm/txQ8Izkh9Iilh4O7a9nirb1AOqyKJ hoeZ/3IzSyTZ/0OymVNjhEExERQNXcCvkMSwQ4VcCcNsAUf9YlgD4EVkugwzAc8w NPIpWWm9OC0idS1pYyNz =rkv/ -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 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/20170506004248.GB1150%40mutt. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[qubes-users] Checking laptop compatibility using boot from USB drive
I'll probably have an opportunity to verify some laptop's compatibility. My idea is to boot Qubes OS or its installer from USB and then to do some checks (most notably VT-d compatibility and USB controller topology). It should be something done in reasonable time and without installing QubesOS on the machine. How should I do that? a. Boot the installer. It however does not seem to contain qubes-hcl-report (just unpacked it), so it does not seem to be easy to check VT-d this way. (I know the CPU supports it, but I can just guess if MoBo/BIOS do too.) b. Boot LiveUSB. It is outdated and unsupported and AFAIR with some known bugs that could prevent booting if I am unlucky. So, this might work, but it might easily fail. c. Install QubesOS on USB stick (and disable usbvm) and boot it. I am not sure if this will work when QubesOS is booted on a different hardware than it was installed with. I see some potential incompatibilities, e.g., wrong PCI device ids assigned to sys-net or too high vCPU count assigned to a VM (target laptop has fewer CPU cores) or addresses in fstab/crypttab. While the mentioned issues seem to be manageable (remove all PCI devices and fix vCPU count if it is too high and check fstab/crypttab), I am not sure if they are exhaustive. Maybe this will work well. (After all, I just need dom0 to boot, not other VMs.) No option seems to be perfect. What would you suggest to try? Regards, Vít Šesták 'v6ak' -- 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/96a8a5c9-8395-431a-81fd-1351463f81fe%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
