Trying to create a new Standalone NixOS or CachyOS, and this what happened.
Using Create new Qube.
Standalone, a new name and other options as they are, close then open advanced tab and update ram, storage and HVM to PVM then point to ISO file. “always fail and errors no matter what I change”
Using Qubes Manager
Standalone, a new name and other options as they are, point to ISO file and a boot window opens, I had to close it then open advanced to update ram and storage.
PVH always fails no matter what, it has to be HVM " Qubes OS documentation recommend to always use PVH and HVM is only for Windows "
Installation of Cachy OS has taken much time " I could install it 3 times ", anyway, finally is working and running, but I can’t change the resolution, Yes from Cachy OS I can, but the frame “colored frame” is the problem, right-click and full screen or alt + f11 does nothing, how I could solve this. " I don’t mind keep showing xfce panel at top, just full screen as you do normal on any running app.
Private and System storage under advanced, I set
Private = 10 and System = 20.
The installation done automatically on 20, can see the 10 and it shows 2 times in Cachy OS but can’t be used, any clue. or I can ignore the Private next time and just increase the System?
Is it possible to somehow create Appvm based on a standalone ? it looks like not, just i’m curious.
If you use dom0/sys-gui for standalone display then you can’t change anything in display department. And it will be slow. Only way to change anything is in dom0/sys-gui to change for whole system.
If you wan’t fast gfx for gaming/video or something and to manipulate gfx/display from standalone then you need second gfx card, hide it from dom0/sys-gui and pass it to standalone and use it on second monitor. There is an option to display it on system monitor but it will be windowed as any other qube and will be slow.
I got in general what you are saying, but I’m not doing it for gaming or anything in specific nor I have a 2nd monitor, just would like to have the resolution sit right so I can use the HVM OS in a proper way, I have to keep pushing the window up and down manually using mouse to see what is going on up and down.
Tried to use almost all the settings within the HVM OS, scale and resolutions but could not make it big enough, small to show all but then I have to get the screen way too close to my face.
Can’t do it, Alt+f11/ right click and Fullscreen, from settings - advanced fullscreen = allow … nothing . tried other apps from Appvms and they work, Standalone is not.
If you don’t mind me asking, what are you trying to achieve in making a NixOS and CachyOS qube? Just experimentation, or are you trying to get them into a usable template state for your qubes?
I need to have other VMs for learning and testing plus I could build something for a specific job, like a media and/or firewall vm.
Having them as a usable tamplate would be awesome thu. "NixOS is solid, even as a standalone it would be hard to break it as of rollback at building got you covered.
Using them for learning and testing should work well for you (except for the issues described in this thread )
I sincerely doubt whether this is worth the effort, as for a reasonably functioning guest OS you’d also need to compile the whole Qubes guest stack with every version change, which is nigh-impossible to keep on top of without automated package builds.
Using them for learning and testing should work well for you (except for the issues described in this thread )
Exactly, I didn’t face any other except for one strange error on the 2nd HVM but I will post it in another thread. Just need to solve this pain for now.
Just no one is saying it can be solved or you have to use it this way for now and have to wait for an update or so.
I sincerely doubt whether this is worth the effort, as for a reasonably functioning guest OS you’d also need to compile the whole Qubes guest stack with every version change, which is nigh-impossible to keep on top of without automated package builds.
I’m aware of this headache, yet it can be like one realse per year or so, I doubt that you would need the 5/6 updates in a year for most of the users.
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