Qubes agent for Windows not working....

[Kevin BRETON]

Hi there.

 

I’ve got some problems to install QubesOS agent on Windows HVM.

When the installer try to launch the « Qubes Agent Services », it failed.

I try to force it on the service.msc MMC but still failed. It reports that i haven’t suffisent rights.

 

I try to launch the installer in Admin mode but same issue.

 

Hope can you help us for this problems.

 

Regards.

 

Kevin BRETON

Consultant Informatique

NERESYS  – Groupe 1Pacte Quartier Payannet 13120 Gardanne

Tel : 04 42 39 55 55 Mail :k.br...@neresys.com http://helpdesk.neresys.com

 

 

[Olivier Médoc]

On 03/07/13 10:10, Kevin BRETON wrote:

Hi there.

 

I’ve got some problems to install QubesOS agent on Windows HVM.

When the installer try to launch the « Qubes Agent Services », it failed.

I try to force it on the service.msc MMC but still failed. It reports that i haven’t suffisent rights.

 

I try to launch the installer in Admin mode but same issue.

 

Hope can you help us for this problems.

 

Hi,

Same problem here. You can find below the current discussion and troubleshooting attempts (without success). Can this problem be related to localization ? Because it seems to fail only for french people...

On 03/04/13 14:20, Olivier Médoc wrote:

On 03/03/13 10:19, Joanna Rutkowska wrote:

On 03/03/13 10:17, Olivier Médoc wrote:

On 03/02/13 16:58, Joanna Rutkowska wrote:

On 03/02/13 15:14, Marek Marczykowski wrote:
(...)

I performed a backup, installed qubes R2B2 and performed a restore. I
discovered that the restore process fails if : the template does not
exists
(which is a problem for archlinux template or appvms based on
fedora17). I
just had to edit the qubes.xml file to change fedora17 to fedora18
so that I
can restore the template. I have two comments about that:
- It would be interesting to give the user the choice to install the
appvm
with no valid template

It will not work b/c many files and settings are used from template.

- It would be interesting to give the user the choice to change the
template
on restore (but this means more coding than the previous)

This is already done - check qvm-backup-restore options, especially
--replace-template. Unfortunately not possible to do from Qubes
Manager for now.

I thought that perhaps we could change qvm-backup-restore to always use
the default template in case it could not find the original one. This
might cause problems, however, in the future when we supported more
templates, such as ArchLinux, Ubuntu, etc. But I guess we can always
assume one is the default, and only replace the *default* templates in
the backup with new defaults. What do you think Marek?

(...)

- The qubes-windows-tools package is not available anymore. By the
way, I
never managed to install the qubes agent on Windows XP nor on
Windows 7 (only
pv drivers worked, but the agent doesn't start).

Joanna, did you regenerated yum metadata after uploading the packages?

Should be there now.

Oliver -- when you say you never managed to install it, what it means
what exactly?

It is currently hard to reproduce because I don't have the windows tools
anymore (no package in the repos).

As I wrote above, it should be there now...

Good.

Globally, on windows xp, it seems to
fails because the qubes agent is apparently 64 bits, on windows 7, it
complains that the agent stopped two quickly, but I didn-t investigated
this enough. It makes the installer fail, and all agent files are
deleted during rollback.

Did you disable Windows signature enforcement, as described in the wiki?

joanna.

Yes, I ran the commands found on the CD README.

The error appears at the end of the setup when the setup try to starts the qrexec_agent service:
Service 'Qubes RPC Agent (QrexecAgent) failed to start. Verify that you have sufficient privileges to start system services.'. In windows application logs, I see the Error 1920.

If I run the setup as administrator, the error message is the same but the error code is 1923.

I really don't know... Process viewer shows that qrexec_agent.exe exits just after reading registry keys related to RPC things (some of these keys do not exist).

Regards.

 

Kevin BRETON

Consultant Informatique

NERESYS  – Groupe 1Pacte Quartier Payannet 13120 Gardanne

Tel : 04 42 39 55 55 Mail :k.br...@neresys.com http://helpdesk.neresys.com

 

 

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[Joanna Rutkowska]

On 03/07/13 10:46, Olivier Médoc wrote:
> On 03/07/13 10:10, Kevin BRETON wrote:
>>
>> Hi there.
>>
>> I've got some problems to install QubesOS agent on Windows HVM.
>>
>> When the installer try to launch the « Qubes Agent Services », it failed.
>>
>> I try to force it on the service.msc MMC but still failed. It reports
>> that i haven't suffisent rights.
>>
>> I try to launch the installer in Admin mode but same issue.
>>
>> Hope can you help us for this problems.
>>
>
> Hi,
>
> Same problem here. You can find below the current discussion and
> troubleshooting attempts (without success). Can this problem be related
> to localization ? Because it seems to fail only for french people...
>

Interesting point... So, can any of you try to install this agent on a
non-localized Windows 7, preferably 64-bit (this is what we tested and
what works fine for us)?

joanna.

[Hakisho Nukama]

I've just tested an installation with Windows 7 x64 Ultimate German,
and it does work (clipboard, copy to vm).

Best Regards,
Hakisho Nukama