Re: [qubes-users] Q: LV (disk) as fake USB stick?

2020-04-21 Thread Steve Coleman
Spoofing the hardware information (e.g. lshw, hdparam, lspci, etc) of a virtual drive is going to be difficult. As an alternative you might want to play with installing it on an actual USB stick and then clone that partition over to your virtual drive. If the software then refuses to run because

[qubes-users] Q: LV (disk) as fake USB stick?

2020-04-21 Thread Catacombs
Not sure I grasp where you are, what your hardware is like, and what you consider successful. Let me say that another way. I suspect you are trying to install Qubes OS in conjunction with some other OS on the same computer. I view the install of Qubes. Qubes prefers to be the sole

[qubes-users] Q: LV (disk) as fake USB stick?

2020-04-21 Thread Ulrich Windl
Hi! I wonder: Some stupid installer insists on installing on a USB stick, not to a disk or partition. If I boot the installer as VM (I did that already), can I fake a LV (logical volume) as USB stick for the VM? I don't want to connect an USB stick just to run some VM from that stick... And: