On "https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/tails/"

[Ulrich Windl]

Hi!

I have some questions that are not covered in https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/tails/:

First what is the procedure to add the image the same way as the other templates are installed?
If I have the image on a stick, the VM creation procedure does not copy the image, to I would need the image all the time. 8-(

Then, when Tails starts, it switches graphics mode and complains

"Error starting GDM with your graphics card: Device [1234:1111] (rev 02). Please take note of this error and visit ... for trouble shooting"

How can I fix this? I had no luck with Google search...


Regards,
Ulrich

[unman]

On Sat, Feb 29, 2020 at 08:02:27PM +0100, Ulrich Windl wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I have some questions that are not covered in https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/tails/:
>
> First what is the procedure to add the image the same way as the other templates are installed?

There is no such procedure. Tails is a live OS intended to run from an
USB stick, or DVD. For convenience you may keep the disk image in one of
your qubes.

> If I have the image on a stick, the VM creation procedure does not copy the image, to I would need the image all the time. 8-(

Copy the image, or download it, to one of your qubes
Then start the HVM with --cdrom=<qube>:<location>

>
> Then, when Tails starts, it switches graphics mode and complains
>
> "Error starting GDM with your graphics card: Device [1234:1111] (rev 02). Please take note of this error and visit ... for trouble shooting"
>
> How can I fix this? I had no luck with Google search...

Works for me.
Did you download the version for virtual machines?

[Ulrich Windl]

On 3/1/20 2:28 AM, unman wrote:

[...]

> Works for me.
> Did you download the version for virtual machines?
>

Hmmm, seems one of the problems is that the ISO for VMs has the same
name as the regular ISO:

https://mirrors.dotsrc.org/tails/stable/tails-amd64-4.5/tails-amd64-4.5.iso
https://archive.torproject.org/amnesia.boum.org/tails/stable/tails-amd64-4.5/tails-amd64-4.5.iso

Trying with the correct image...

Ulrich

[Ulrich Windl]

Ok, it seems the real reason for the error message about the graphics
card was lack of RAM (only 400MB) in the VM: After increasing it to 1GB,
it started OK. (As it was quite slow, I increased RAM to 2GB)

Still I have some issues I don't know how to handle:

1) Starting from an ISO image found in some VM, how can I populate the
root LV so that I don't need the ISO image any more? I have these LVS
right now, all empty:

vm-Tails-VM-private qubes_dom0 Vwi-a-tz--
2.00g pool00 vm-Tails-VM-private-1586907685-back 0.00
vm-Tails-VM-private-1586907685-back qubes_dom0 Vwi-a-tz--
2.00g pool00 0.00
vm-Tails-VM-private-snap qubes_dom0 Vwi-aotz--
2.00g pool00 vm-Tails-VM-private 0.00
vm-Tails-VM-root qubes_dom0 Vwi-a-tz--
10.00g pool00 vm-Tails-VM-root-1586907685-back 0.00
vm-Tails-VM-root-1586907685-back qubes_dom0 Vwi-a-tz--
10.00g pool00 0.00
vm-Tails-VM-root-snap qubes_dom0 Vwi-aotz--
10.00g pool00 vm-Tails-VM-root 0.00
vm-Tails-VM-volatile qubes_dom0 Vwi-aotz--
10.00g pool00 0.00

How can I enable networking in tails? I selected sys-firewall as NetVM,
but DHCP does not get an address. When configuring the IPv4
address/mask/DNS Qubes Manager displays, I have a network connection,
but as Tails forgets everything, I would have to configure those after
each boot...

>
> Ulrich
>