clock synchronization mechanism rewritten to use systemd-timesync instead of NtpDate; at the moment, requires:
- modifying /etc/qubes-rpc/policy/qubes.GetDate to redirect GetDate to designated clockvm
- enabling clocksync service in clockvm ( qvm-features clockvm-name service/clocksync true )
Works as specified in issue listed below, except for:
- each VM synces with clockvm after boot and every 6h
- clockvm synces time with the Internet using systemd-timesync
- dom0 synces itself with clockvm every 1h (using cron)
fixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#1230
Use UDEV_DISABLE_PERSISTENT_STORAGE_RULES_FLAG instead, which is
available since systemd 231.
- Do not merge to branches where dom0 is older than Fedora 25 -
I need to set some flags in order to boot as described here:
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/uefi-troubleshooting/
My settings look like this:
$ efibootmgr -v
BootCurrent: 0000
Boot0000* Qubes HD(...)/File(\EFI\qubes\xen.efi)p.l.a.c.e.h.o...
which causes awk to get confused and think my $EFI_DIR should be:
/EFI/qubesp.l.a.c.e.h.o.l.d.e.r. ./.m.a.p.b.s. ./.n.o.e.x.i.t.b.o.o.t.
This causes the script to later bail:
if [ ! -d "$EFI_DIR" ]; then
# non-EFI system
exit 0;
fi
So my xen.cfg did not get new entries when installing dom0 kernel packages.
The entry may be already present for example when reinstalling package,
or calling the script multiple times (which apparently is the case
during system installation).
In non-EFI installation /boot/efi/EFI/qubes may not exists. In this case
do not try to touch (non-existing) files there.
FixesQubesOS/qubes-issues#1829
The specification doesn't cover how to boot Xen (or any other multiboot
binary), but the sole presence of such directory changes dracut default
path. So get rid of that directory.
Since we now allow using Fedora kernel, add a script to generate proper
bootloader configuration then. Standard Fedora mechanism relies on
Boot Loader Specification support in grub2, which sadly does not support
Xen, so it is useless in Qubes.
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki