Install on different hard drive to what Qubes OS is installed on

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I have installed Qubes OS on my SSD, which is fine

I have another hard drive, on which I had other programs installed, but is not the hard drive on which Qubes OS is installed

I would like to install these other programs on the hard drive which does not have Qubes OS installed

How can I go about doing so please? Can I create templates and qubes on a different hard drive without issue?

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welcome, you could install templates/AppVms on a différent drive:

What do you want to say by “other programs”?

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Games

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If it is games you’re running with another OS, you must keep a part of your 2nd storage and change sudo lvcreate -T -n poolhd0 -l +100%FREE qubes to sudo lvcreate -T -n poolhd0 -l +50%FREE qubes or another size to keep space on the storage for installing another OS and then, install your games.
but I’m not competent enough to help you with that.

the other way would be to create an HVM and install an OS but as Qubes doesn’t manage graphics acceleration, to play… :confused: You’d have to do a passtrough and it’s really not easy.

Personnaly, i installed debian on a 1To to an external ssd and i boot on it when i have to use on “classic OS”. This is the simplest solution.