I've successfully used qvm-block (in Dom0) to attach USB drives to different VMs (persistently), but I've noticed that Qubes (or Linux) sometimes gives them to different devices over time. In other words, on Monday, my BIG_TOSHIBA drive will be on /dev/sda, but it'll be assigned to /dev/sdj when I boot up on Wednesday. This is throwing off my VeraCrypt / FreeFileSync backup routine. (Another way of saying this is if I say "qvm-block attach MyVM sys-usb:sda --persistent" when one of the three drives I use for MyVM is currently attached to that, this will fail if Qubes moves that drive to a different device-name (during boot) that isn't one of the three I previously attached (when I go to start up that VM).
I thought about persistently attaching all 10 of my USB drives to the VM (some HDs, some flash, one SSD - I never use all of them at once - don't ask!) because that would certainly fix this problem, but I get the following error when I try to start the VM: "ERROR: Start failed: XML error: target 'xvdi' duplicated for disk sources '/dev/sdc' and '/dev/sde', see /var/log/libvirt/libxl/libxl-driver.log for details". Note that I did all the persistent attachment commands while the VM was not running. If I detach all those, start the VM, do the persistent attachments, shut down the VM and then restart it, I get an error along the lines of "qrexec process failed to respond in 60 seconds". So, I guess I'm asking if there's a way to just persistently attach 2 or 3 external USB drives and have them consistently available on the same device names when I start the VM so VeraCrypt doesn't balk? (VeraCrypt ultimately doesn't care what device a drive is attached to (it could be sda - sdj on my system) because it shows the attached drive as "/media/user/BIG_TOSHIBA, but if a drive isn't where it's supposed to be, that'll fail. In case you're curious, the error messages in /var/log/libvirt/libxl/libxl-driver.log are meaningless to me, but if you want me to post it, I can. Any help you guys can give me would be greatly appreciated! Thanks... -- 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/f0434929-c5e2-446e-8835-045f7203906b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
