Qubes OS (1)

2021-03-18

After installing Qubes OS on a new Thinkpad T14s (Intel), most QVMs did not start and error messages were all over the place. Many of these were consequential errors, but tracking down the underlying problem took me a bit.

Start failed: internal error: Unable to reset PCI device 0000:00:1f:6: no FLR, PM reset or bus reset available, see /var/log/libvirt/libxl/libxl-driver.log for details

The mentioned file /var/log/libvirt/libxl/libxl-driver.log was empty.

But this got me in the right direction. After removing the PCI device (my wired Ethernet adapter) from the sys-net QVM, it started. This did not fix the root cause, but for now I can live well enough with only the Wi-fi adapter working.

(Qubes OS PCI Troubleshooting states that the linux-firmware package needs to be installed in the sys-net QVM's TemplateVM -- but this is already the case.)

To be continued...