Qubes on iMac 27" late 2009

[m...@openmailbox.org]

Dear,
I've an iMac 27 late 2009 (2,66 GHz Intel Core i5).

When I tried to install Qubes OS 4.0 rc2, I get following message:

"Unsupported Hardware Detected

This hardware lack features required by Qubes OS

Missing features: HVM/VT-x/AMD-V, IOMMU/VT-d/AMD-Vi, HAP/SLAT/EPT/RVI,

Interrupt remapping"

Is it possible to solve this issue by activating something?

Or do I have to buy a new computer?

Thank you for your help.

[Tai...@gmx.com]

On 11/19/2017 12:01 PM, m...@openmailbox.org wrote:

> Dear,
> I've an iMac 27 late 2009 (2,66 GHz Intel Core i5).
>
> When I tried to install Qubes OS 4.0 rc2, I get following message:
>
> "Unsupported Hardware Detected
>
> This hardware lack features required by Qubes OS
>
> Missing features: HVM/VT-x/AMD-V, IOMMU/VT-d/AMD-Vi, HAP/SLAT/EPT/RVI,
>
> Interrupt remapping"
>
> Is it possible to solve this issue by activating something?

You would have to enable HVM and IOMMU in the BIOS but it seems in
apples infinite wisdom they never included a configuration menu. I am
not sure of any other way to do so but I am sure apple has some super
secret VIP method so I would ask on a third party apple forum.

Your CPU isn't going to support interrupt remapping anyways making the
protection of IOMMU a paper tiger so I would get new hardware (tell me
what you want and I will advise you on what to buy in terms of hardware
that is owner controlled and qubes supporting)