On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 12:36:05AM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> On 12/15/20 5:40 PM,
ser...@da.matta.nom.br wrote:
> > Thank you Unman. I do not use React-OS anymore. It worked fine on Qubes
> > 3. But I really think it was a bad decision to support only xvda. It is
> > not only Android, React-os, Chrome-Os and others. It is about Qubes
> > users.?? I will keep using Qubes-OS 4 even with his limitations, but I
> > hope Qubes-os chooses to be?? easier to his users, in the future.
>
> Some stupid question: Isn't it the kernel that boots in the VM that assigns
> the name? If so, it's not Xen that assigns the name...
>
Not a stupid question - Xen instruments the block device type, and the
kernel names accordingly.
In these cases, the kernel will not name the default block devices as
/dev/sdX, but the installer will only work if such a disk is present.
One might ask why the installers are so restrictive.