Qubes Windows 10?

[Pawel Debski]

Folks,

I have Qubes 3.2 up, updated & running like a charm. Now the Microsoft challenge. The doc @ https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows-appvms/ instructs to use Windows 7. Do you suggest to stick with version 7 or go ahead to 10 / 8?

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Z powazaniem / Best Regards
Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Meilleures salutations
Pawel Debski

[Andrew David Wong]

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On 2016-09-17 00:56, Pawel Debski wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I have Qubes 3.2 up, updated & running like a charm. Now the Microsoft challenge. The doc @ https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows-appvms/ instructs to use Windows 7. Do you suggest to stick with version 7 or go ahead to 10 / 8?
>

Windows 8 and 10 aren't yet supported by Qubes Windows
Tools, but we're currently working on it:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1861

For now, Windows 7 is better supported, so it's the
recommended version.

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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[ludwig jaffe]

Hi I run windows10 w/o windows tools and I replace cut and paste with an editor to generate a file and then I ssh to the other machines.
Also files I can tar.gz and ssh.

Here it is good to install cygwin on the windows10, and
also you want to install classic shell and remove cortana, the spy.
I did this and it works

[Pawel Debski]

Now I have Windows 7 up and running, but I have some minor stability problems - I used testing version of Qubes Windows Tools as there was no stable version avaiable.

Did I do something wrong or indeed there is no stable version of Qubes Windows Tools?

[entr0py]

Pawel Debski:

There is no version of qubes-windows-tools in the stable repo. The latest testing version is 3.2.1-3 and the prior testing release series was 3.0.4-1.

After much testing with Windows 7 on Qubes R3.1, I was unable to get QWT 3.2 working in a stable fashion. I don't want to lead you astray - this is very much YMMV. Everyone seems to have their own personalized experience with Windows on Qubes. I think part of the reason for this is that stability is also a function of which Windows updates are installed.

I downgraded to QWT 3.0 without PV disk drivers and now have a stable Win 7 running MS Office with full inter-VM operability.

(Some of the BSODs received while running QWT 3.2:
RDR_FILE_SYSTEM
DRIVER_POWER_FAILURE
QUOTA_UNDERFLOW
BAD_POOL_HEADER
MEMORY_MANAGEMENT
A device driver has pool.)

[Pawel Debski]

I fully understand what you say and what I achieved is satisfying from
my point of view. However if I'm going to deploy a number of personal
productivity workstation in a banking environment the ordinary user will
kill my project when he looses his work because of minor unstability.

[pixel fairy]

On Tuesday, September 20, 2016 at 10:06:06 AM UTC-7, Pawel Debski wrote:
> On 2016-09-20 18:27, entr0py wrote:
> > Pawel Debski:
> >> W dniu niedziela, 18 września 2016 17:21:47 UTC+2 użytkownik ludwig jaffe napisał:
> >>> On Saturday, September 17, 2016 at 3:55:58 AM UTC-4, Pawel Debski wrote:
> >>>> Folks,
> >>>>
> >>>> I have Qubes 3.2 up, updated &
> >>>> running like a charm. Now the Microsoft challenge. The doc @
> >>>> https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows-appvms/ instructs to use
> >>>> Windows 7. Do you suggest to stick with version 7 or go ahead to
> >>>> 10 / 8?

could you use published apps from a windows server instead? https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP/wiki/RemoteApp

[Andrew David Wong]

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Correct. There is currently no stable version of Qubes Windows Tools.

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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[raah...@gmail.com]

how did you remove cortana?

[Ph.T]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2016 at 10:39 PM, <raah...@gmail.com> wrote:

how did you remove cortana?

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q990oW7JgvA

[Pete Howell]

I tried to pull from the testing repository with the following:

> qubes-dom0-update --enablerepo=qubes-dom0-current-testing qubes-windows-tools

It lists version 3.2.2-3 as available, but downloaded failed -- "All mirrors were tried".

How can one get the test version?

[Hugo Costa]

That's weird, I used that command yesterday and it worked perfectly. Maybe try on a different network?

[Andrew Morgan]

FYI qubes-windows-tools only works on Windows 7.