I am thinking of installing Qubesos on my laptop but before that I would like to play with it before installation. The only option I know is to install it under Vmware. I know this solution is not supported but for educational and learning purposes it would be good to be able to do that.
Does anybody know if this is possible ? I tried to install it under Vmware but it failed. Any workarounds ? I can even lower the security of QubesOS (if this is somehow possible) to achieve it - this is just for educational purposes.
Any help ?
Best regards
Przemek
I have managed to do this once but I wasn't able to repeat it for some reason...
If you want to put Qubes under VMWare, I recommend 3.0, it installs every time.
If you have a server, then install Qubes under ESXi, it's what I did, and I've not had issues doing it many times before I then put it onto my actual PC.
Qubes 2 also installs easily under VMWare, even on Player or Workstation on local PC. Just be sure you have enough Virtual HDD space for it. (32 GB+)
As for 3.2 I'm not sure, I just put it on my Laptop using an HDD I had lying around.
So that is 1 way you can accomplish this too.
- Get another HDD that you have lying around.
- Install onto that on your PC.
- Mount HDD under VMWARE.
- Clone HDD to virtual disk.
- Boot and start the VM with only the virtual disk.
This method has to sometimes be used, as I was told when I had issues at one point on my particular hardware (My laptop).
I did that, and it worked fine under VMWare Player 6.
On ESXi I installed directly on ESXi 5.5, worked first time.
So there are many options to get it working under VMWare.
Thanks Andrew for the hint with USB. I imagine every time you reboot your laptop to run your disk installed OS you loose everything you configured in your USB-based Qubes ?
Which QubesOS version did you install on ESXi ?
Best regards
Przemek
No, not at all. It was an installation, not a snapshot or anything, completely full.
On Friday, 2 September 2016 16:53:33 UTC+10, p.@.com wrote:
> Which QubesOS version did you install on ESXi ?
It was ESXi 5.5 IBM custom.
You can take everything everywhere you go and have a secure system no matter what.