On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 12:49:34PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Can someone tell me if I am missing something? > > I do a lot of testing of linux kernels. A bunch of that I have > historically done in qemu with kvm support. Unfortunately nested > hardware virtualization does not work. Which means for testing > for race conditions and the like I need to run the kernels in > their own HVM. > > I use an HVM so I can update the kernel in /boot and reboot the qube and > be running the kernel I am testing. It would be nice if I could use a > throw-away qube that just boots with a kernel of my choosing but using > an stand-alone qube is fine. > > Where I run into practical problems is when I want to place specific > files into my testing qube. I have not figured out how to ssh into > the qube from another qube, nor have I figured out how to use qvm-copy. > The best I have right now is to have an external machine that I copy > things to and then copy them back, which seems like a real hack. > > I also have not figured out how to get a serial console from such a qube > only a graphical one which makes it more difficult than I would like > to capture errors. > > I looked at installing the qubes-core-agent package in my testing HVM > but it has too many dependencies and installing it makes it impossible > to test what I would like to test. That is assuming someone has even > packaged it for the distro I need to test on. > > Am I missing something? Is there an easier more straight forward way to > setup a testing qube? Is it possible to setup a virtual serial console > to a qube? Is it possible to ssh to a qube from another qube? > > Eric
Hi Eric You should probably check out the fine documentation: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/managing-vm-kernels/ has information about using different kernels, including kernels provided by the qube. https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/firewall has information about enabling networking between qubes. If you are using HVMs you can, in some cases, install qubes packages, and then use tools like qvm-copy. I say, in some cases, because this wont work with some targets, like Ubuntu standalones. unman -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/YedXTcXJyVZbFbxO%40thirdeyesecurity.org.
