Re: [qubes-users] Re: Any way to attach a USB drive to a VM by label?
On Friday, May 18, 2018 at 3:14:57 AM UTC-4, awokd wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2018 1:00 am, Qubes Guy wrote: > > On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 8:57:09 PM UTC-4, Qubes Guy wrote: > > >> So, I guess I'm asking if there's a way to just persistently attach 2 or > >> 3 external USB drives and have them consistently available on the same > >> device names when I start the VM so VeraCrypt doesn't balk? (VeraCrypt > >> ultimately doesn't care what device a drive is attached to (it could be > >> sda - sdj on my system) because it shows the attached drive as > >> "/media/user/BIG_TOSHIBA, but if a drive isn't where it's supposed to > >> be, that'll fail. > > > By the way, I'm running version 4.0 of Qubes on a fairly recent laptop > > with 8GB of RAM... > > Can you make sys-usb's /etc/fstab persistent, then specify /dev names > there by drive UUID? I'm not sure what you mean by either of those things. Are you saying I should put entries in the fstab file in sys-usb to permanently mount those drives? If so, what would the commands look like? (As a side note, I tried to persistently mount a NAS share using the fstab file in my Debian template (and various other things) and couldn't get that to work, but I do know about the fstab file. I'm gonna try to use NFS instead...) -- 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/74405d5e-a364-4c6d-8c56-b122662e2fe5%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: [qubes-users] Re: Any way to attach a USB drive to a VM by label?
On Fri, May 18, 2018 1:00 am, Qubes Guy wrote: > On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 8:57:09 PM UTC-4, Qubes Guy wrote: >> So, I guess I'm asking if there's a way to just persistently attach 2 or >> 3 external USB drives and have them consistently available on the same >> device names when I start the VM so VeraCrypt doesn't balk? (VeraCrypt >> ultimately doesn't care what device a drive is attached to (it could be >> sda - sdj on my system) because it shows the attached drive as >> "/media/user/BIG_TOSHIBA, but if a drive isn't where it's supposed to >> be, that'll fail. > By the way, I'm running version 4.0 of Qubes on a fairly recent laptop > with 8GB of RAM... Can you make sys-usb's /etc/fstab persistent, then specify /dev names there by drive UUID? -- 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/a7ef7c3a77082a857b0df50d39f66166%40elude.in. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
[qubes-users] Re: Any way to attach a USB drive to a VM by label?
On Thursday, May 17, 2018 at 8:57:09 PM UTC-4, Qubes Guy wrote: > I've successfully used qvm-block (in Dom0) to attach USB drives to different > VMs (persistently), but I've noticed that Qubes (or Linux) sometimes gives > them to different devices over time. In other words, on Monday, my > BIG_TOSHIBA drive will be on /dev/sda, but it'll be assigned to /dev/sdj when > I boot up on Wednesday. This is throwing off my VeraCrypt / FreeFileSync > backup routine. (Another way of saying this is if I say "qvm-block attach > MyVM sys-usb:sda --persistent" when one of the three drives I use for MyVM is > currently attached to that, this will fail if Qubes moves that drive to a > different device-name (during boot) that isn't one of the three I previously > attached (when I go to start up that VM). > > I thought about persistently attaching all 10 of my USB drives to the VM > (some HDs, some flash, one SSD - I never use all of them at once - don't > ask!) because that would certainly fix this problem, but I get the following > error when I try to start the VM: "ERROR: Start failed: XML error: target > 'xvdi' duplicated for disk sources '/dev/sdc' and '/dev/sde', see > /var/log/libvirt/libxl/libxl-driver.log for details". > > Note that I did all the persistent attachment commands while the VM was not > running. If I detach all those, start the VM, do the persistent attachments, > shut down the VM and then restart it, I get an error along the lines of > "qrexec process failed to respond in 60 seconds". > > So, I guess I'm asking if there's a way to just persistently attach 2 or 3 > external USB drives and have them consistently available on the same device > names when I start the VM so VeraCrypt doesn't balk? (VeraCrypt ultimately > doesn't care what device a drive is attached to (it could be sda - sdj on my > system) because it shows the attached drive as "/media/user/BIG_TOSHIBA, but > if a drive isn't where it's supposed to be, that'll fail. > > In case you're curious, the error messages in > /var/log/libvirt/libxl/libxl-driver.log are meaningless to me, but if you > want me to post it, I can. > > Any help you guys can give me would be greatly appreciated! Thanks... By the way, I'm running version 4.0 of Qubes on a fairly recent laptop with 8GB of RAM... -- 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/592ec7f7-d1c5-4bf6-871a-3863fec8ff0b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
