Problems and some background*
*
*Booting:*
Booting only worked with
1. UFI turned off.
2. nuveau blacklisted (blacklist.drivers=nouveau)
With UFI turned on, it was always unable to find Qubes on my flashdrive.
With nuveau not blacklisted, Xorg was always unable to start (I don't
know how to get the logs for here).
For about 1/10th of the times (I've been manually counting 20) for the
past weeks, boot fails. It asks for the decryption passphrase and it
fails to decrypt the partition.
*Installation:*
*Background:* I have an SSD and an HDD. I tried splitting OS data
(larger information which changes less often) into the SSD and the
regular data (smaller data that changes much more often) into the HDD.
This included storing "/boot" and "/" into the SSD and "/home" and
"/swap" to the HDD.
*Problem: *Unfortunately, no matter the way I tried to configure (unless
if placing all into the SSD), It only boots from the HDD and can't boot
from the SSD, for some reason.
*Setup:*
Worked without issues.
Qubes features:
Sleep does *not *restore reliably: Every time I put the PC to sleep, it
is a gamble of whether or not it will come back Even though the odds
have been more turned to "it will come back". When it doesn't turn back,
it exits from sleep, turns on the screen but nothing ever appears on
screen. Instead, XScreenSaver password prompt should appear, instead.
Dom0 has a task manager... Which unfortunately, doesn't tell me how much
%CPU each machine is working. Knowing about hypervisors, I suspect that
is caused by how a hypervisor itself works, where the host can't know
how it is using the hardware unless it is running in HVM mode (in Xen's
case)
*Unofficially supported features:*
GPU (GTX1050TiM) passthrough: Unfortunately, I was completely unable to
setup a passthrough for this GPU. I've tried many other success stories.
According to my research, I'd need nouveau working on DOM0 and qubes
allowing OpenGL (or equivalent) because the contents of the qube would
be shown on a window instead of a different screen and then I'd need to
get bumblebee (or equivalent) to work on DOM0. (E.g. guide:
https://gist.github.com/Misairu-G/616f7b2756c488148b7309addc940b28)
My main objective for this was 3D rendering (and other usages for the
CUDA cores, including, for programming use) and for gaming.
Unless someone is able to help me handing the only problem which
prevents me from using Qubes.
Results
Everything worked as the manual described and I didn't have any
surprises with actions and features on this platform.
Aftermath
Since the beginning of last year I've been wanting to use qubes. It has
so so many features which makes having a very secure system much easier
than most other OS. Not only that, it also makes privacy and anonymity
(when chosen to) a much easier and straightforward job to implement.
Even then backing up any of the qubes is a job almost without hassle. In
nearly all I did, qubes was doing a great job behind the scenes to keep
me informed about nearly all that was being done.
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layout:
'hcl'
type:
'notebook'
hvm:
'yes'
iommu:
'yes'
slat:
'yes'
tpm:
'unknown'
remap:
'yes'
brand: |
Notebook
model: |
N85_N87,HJ,HJ1,HK1
bios: |
1.05.18
cpu: |
Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700HQ CPU @ 2.80GHz
cpu-short: |
FIXME
chipset: |
Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM
Registers [8086:5910] (rev 05)
chipset-short: |
FIXME
gpu: |
Intel Corporation Device [8086:591b] (rev 04) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
gpu-short: |
FIXME
network: |
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit
Ethernet Controller (rev 12)
Intel Corporation Wireless 8265 / 8275 (rev 78)
memory: |
16141
scsi: |
ST1000LM048-2E71 Rev: SDM1
usb: |
1
versions:
- works:
'yes'
qubes: |
R4.0
xen: |
4.8.3
kernel: |
4.14.18-1
remark: |
Cannot passthrough GTX1050Ti NVidia card (VM crashes every time I try)
Recovering from sleep sometimes fails, forcing me to do a PCI reset
credit: |
Brunoais
link: |
https://github.com/brunoais
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