running programs as room in sys-usb?

[Stumpy]

I have sys-usb based on fedora minimal and when i try to run something
like qvm-run -u root sys-usb xterm from dom0 it just hangs (the command,
not the whole computer) until i ctrl+c out.

Is there some reason i shouldnt be able to do this?

[Mike Keehan]

I imagine qvm-run will require some qubes package to be installed in
the vm, and fedora-minimal doesn't have it.

The Qubes documentation website contains some details on what is
needed in a minimal template for some purposes.

Mike.

[Stumpy]

Thanks. Does it count that i can run the minimal template that sys-usb
is based on as root? that is something like:

qvm-run -u root fedora-30-minimal xterm

and it starts right up? or is that different?

[Mike Keehan]

Ah, that's "interesting". I guess you have the right packages
installed. It might be a Qubes policy thing, but I have never tried
looking into those.

Sorry, I can't help much now.

Mike.