On Saturday, November 19, 2016 at 9:48:31 PM UTC-5, Johannes Zipperer wrote: > I tested Qubes 3.2 with the Fedora 24 template for about 5 hours intensely. > > Installation: No problems during install. Bootable USB is only accepted > when the Secure Boot keys are removed (hit ESC or DEL during boot for > uefi). TPM Module seems not to be identified but I did put not much > effort into diagnosing the problem. > > Connect wifi: After some trouble of finding the network manager in the > sys-net qube I successfully connected. Oddly the reception bars are red > while there is no issue using the web. > > Whonix: Following the installation wiki for whonix it worked out of the > box to connect to the TOR network verified by check.torproject.org. I > was able to watch a youtube clip with smooth playback and with working > sound. HighDPI scaling has to be configured manually. The performance > concerning web browsing is not much worse from firefox from the > fedora-24 template. > > Windows: using in dom0 the command qvm-start Windows-10 > --cd-rom=fedora-24:/home/user/Downloads/Windows.iso was not successful. > So I gave up for now on that. > > Touchscreen and stylus: both work out of the box. Stylus connected not > very reliably, but drawing lines and writing after that is fine. > Onscreen keyboard is missing and I didn't get florence to type anything. > Annotating PDFs works fairly well in Okular. Volume rocker and power button > works out of the box > > USB-Devices and microSD: Mounted a FAT formatted USB drive successfully. > Cherry DW5000 works out of the box but media keys and super key need > configuring. I have no original type or touch cover to test. exFAT > microSD didn't work. But the same microSD card worked in the built-in > reader when formatted in NTFS (tested transfering and opening a JPG). > Using a USB hub with SD cardreader worked out of the box. > > High DPI scaling: works generally well for touch control. Firefox opens > first time after restart with too big UI elements and text. Icons in > some applications like in Gimp are not scaled and kind of small. The > dom0 and template applications are generally not scaled. > > Audio and Video: sound output works out of the box, playing mp3 in vlc > as well, mp4 in vlc in software decoding mode very choppy. youtube > videos are more fluid but no fullscreen support. streaming youtube > videos in vlc didn't work. Recording audio from the microphone with > pulsecaster works out of the box. > > installing software: I was able to install and use vlc, Okular, > LibreOffice, Inkscape (bad stylus support), Gimp (better stylus > support), Thunderbird, Darktable, I changed the language and keyboard > layout to german sucessfully. Since I installed, tested and configured > everything in the template I have to say something about the use inside > a qube. I didn't test the pulsecaster, florence, Okular successfully in > the "personal" qube. > > suspend reboot and shutdown: shutdown works, but is slow. device shows > black screen after suspending and wakes up when a key is pressed, but I > don't know if it really gets into the lower C states inbetween. reboot > does not work. > > File manager: starting the file manager needs a second click in 50% of > the cases when I wanted to start it. Copying files works. > > Performance and battery life: I assume that it is all rendered in > software, so considering that, I think the performance is decent, maybe > as a 1,3 GHz quad core Android phone regarding application start and tabbed > browsing (sorry for the comparison =/). Battery life is lower > than under windows, I didn't find the brightness controls and the > brightness sensor did not work out of the box, so my battery life was > only around 3 hours. > > Reverting back to windows: I successfully tested installing again Windows 10, > which was previously tied to this device on a certain Microsoft account > (important because of the license server, that works without keys). It was > installed by a USB stick previously formatted by the media creation tool. The > risk is not so high to try Qubes, although I recommend getting accustomed > before using it in production. I hope this helps others. > > Life is good, Jesus is better! > Johannes
Thank you for your efforts. I've been attempting to install Qubes 3.2 on a Surface Pro 4, but I've been unable to get past EFI errors. I'm hoping you can help me. First of all, I downloaded and verified the 3.2 ISO. Following the qubes install guide I used Rufus to transfer the iso to a usb stick. I selected the iso, set the partition scheme to GPT for UEFI, the File system to Fat32, and finally selected dd image to create the bootable disk. On the Surface Pro 4, I entered into the UEFI menu and disabled Secure Boot (None), and prioritized USB Storage in the boot order. I then attached the bootable usb device and restarted the machine. The Surface Pro loads into the grub menu - but fails to install the image. During "Test the media and install Qubes" and "Install Qubes" (approx wording) the process stalls at a screen with 4 penguins and the message: "EFI_MEMMAP is not enabled". Qubes site has a troubleshooting guide for UEFI, which I followed. The suggestion to edit the "Troubleshoot" grub entry and add "/noexitboot /mapbs" at the end of the chainloader line did not resolve my problem. Further investigations online was unfruitful. My hope is that I may have simply missed a critical step when building the boot image usb stick. Perhaps I need to use a different partition scheme or file system? Did you use Rufus to install Qubes on the Surface Pro 3? What settings did you use? From your writeup, it doesn't sound like you encountered any of the issues I'm having, but then they are different machines. Do you have any suggestions? I appreciate anything you can share. Have great day! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/cda4c54d-3140-4c16-a4df-64fa842f3fbf%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
