Those using a Kali vm. Which download iso do you have that is working on qubes?

[jaki...@gmail.com]

I'm not getting anything properly up. I've seen the errors on here that some people have and never a solution really. I've also seen the errors talked about in other places but no solution works on qubes

As of now I can login and just get the small space at the bottom visible.

On windows running virtual box there is no problems whatsoever

[Noor Christensen]

Hi!

There is no real reason to run Kali as a HVM machine if you only want
the tools that comes with it. You can use a basic Debian template, add
the Kali repos and install all available packages using the katoolin[0]
utility.

As suggested in an earlier thread about running Kali in Qubes OS:

On Wed, Jun 28, 2017 at 07:37:17PM +0200, Noor Christensen wrote:
> I guess an alternative would be to use the katoolin[0] utility to
> install the Kali packages in an existing Debian template. There are
> several articles on how to do this on the net, but here's one of
> them[1].
>
> Basically, it adds the Kali APT repositories + GPG key and provides a
> simple menu for selecting packages for install using the same categories
> as Kali. I think it also includes a script to create the same
> application menu structure as the default Kali install.
>
> Seems to work fine, been using Kali like this since I switched over to
> an Qubes based environment.
>
> [0] https://github.com/LionSec/katoolin
> [1] https://www.tecmint.com/install-kali-linux-tools-using-katoolin-on-ubuntu-debian/

If you need any help, just ask - this workflow works fine in my case.

-- noor

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[jaki...@gmail.com]

Hey Noor. Thanks. And yeah I definitely need help in this. I followed the Debian clone and still couldn't access anything. This is a fresh install of Qubes as the last one messed up after the last update.

Now I can't even get xarchiver working properly on Debian here. But I really want the gui options and tool bar in Kali hvm since nothing works where even tho things are accessible I can't search or do anything unless it's command line when i did the katoolin.

[Micah Lee]

I've had this same problem with different distros in HVMs running GNOME,
including with Kali. I never solved it, but I did discover that XFCE
doesn't have the same problem.

So if you want to run something closer to vanilla Kali, you can download
and install the "Kali 64 bit Xfce"[1] iso to an HVM, and this will work.

Although, you won't get Qubes tools, which means you won't be able to
fully maximize the window, share the clipboard, copy files between VMs,
etc. I find that Kali is more usable in Qubes to do it in the way Noor
suggested and use Debian with katoolin instead.

[1] https://www.kali.org/downloads/