Trying to install Ubuntu as HVM can't restart
snowbo...@gmail.com
1) I make an HVM (tried both normal and template) and then assign more disk space to it.
2) I download the ubuntu iso file for desktop.
3) I run qvm-start ubuntu --cdrom=vmpath:/home/user/downloads/xxx.iso
4) I run the installation that surprisingly finishes ultra fast. There are two disks one is xvda and xvdb. The first has the space that VM has for "personal usage" and the second for "system". I tried installing on both with same result.
5) As the installation finishes when I shutdown the machine it doesn't shutdown. A black window keeps on. Then I kill it with Qubes-manager.
6) after that it doesn't start. It says booting from hard drive but nothing happens.
I tried many times. What am I doing wrong?
thanks in advance
Yuraeitha
Don't label yourself as an idiot. Although I'm not an expert, but your logical approach seems pretty good to me, you try to find the reason and logic behind it. No matter what, trying to solve it is a good logical quality.
As for why it doesn't work, it seems like a driver issue for graphics? You could try change the AppVM's grub menu, and put a different graphic driver, xdriver=vesa, nomodeset, or something along those lines. Vast topics can be found on this issue, now that you can suspect graphiic issues, you can more easily find these topics to try troubleshoot it if neither commands above work.
You can also try change the used kernel to '' blank, since Ubuntu custom install without Qubes code, probably has no means to use its own kernel pulled from dom0 kernels, and the Ubuntu kernel may try to boot up while the VM kernel's located in dom0. As such, there may be a conflict here? I'm not sure if this is what is happening, but you can try put the qvm-prefs for the kernel in blank, install again and see what happens, it should allow Ubuntu to use its own kernel, I believe.
btw, for what purposes are you getting Ubuntu? By any chance is it codecs? are the other reasons? It may be more efficient to fix up Fedora or Debian, instead of getting Ubuntu up and running. It's just that there are so many Ubuntu questions lately, I'm a bit lost as to why people would want Ubuntu if they installed Qubes OS. Qubes OS is a bit of a leap to jump from Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora isn't that bad for next steps after Ubuntu, but Qubes OS may be a bit of a leap in its current state.
The only real nice thing is the ease to install nvidia drivers, but that is hardly something you will end up needing in Qubes anyway. Can I ask what you need Ubuntu for? and perhaps if you desire to give it a shot for an alternative, and try Fedora and Debian to get the tasks done you usually do on Ubuntu? If you still feel like going for Ubuntu, then that's fine, I won't get in the way for that.
As such, if keeping Ubuntu, fixing graphic drivers may be a good place to start here?
snowbo...@gmail.com
Hi thanks I will try that. I am using Ubuntu because Debian 8 is such a pain when installing new software. You need to enable testing and unstable repos and then you end up with a mixed system then things break down etc. Ubuntu 16 is for sure compatible with most software oob for the next 2 years.
Unman
Also, make sure that you have enough memory allocated:
qvm-prefs <qube> -s memory 8192
qvm-prefs <qube> -s maxmem 8192
You're doing the right thing, and as you can boot from the iso all
should be fine. There are issues with Ubuntu resolution when running as
VM - you can see reference to this in the list in the past. Changing
graphics drivers wont help with that issue.
snowbo...@gmail.com
want to report that I found the problem. it was encrypted home folder. unchecked works ok. not sure if i should post it on github.
Unman
folders and they start fine.(For me this works installing to xvda.)
I dont think a github issue would be appropriate.
Anyway, glad you are up and running.