Qubes 3.2 on Macbook Pro Retina 11,5 [SOLVED]. Maybe useful for other Macbook models

[Marco Pozzato]

Hi

I am using Qubes 3.2 since a couple of months on a daily basis on Intel NUC NUC6i5SYK and it is amazing.

I would like to use it also on one of my MacBooks:
* MacBook Pro 15" early-2011 8,2: my first attempt and I was not even able to start the installer. At that time I did not have enough knowledge and abandoned. Maybe, in the forthcoming weeks, I will retry
* MacBook Pro 15" mid-2015 11,5: I have been able to install Qubes booting with rEFInd, despite a lot of issues.

The two main issues I faced are:
* no boot, due to empty xen.cfg file
* system freeze, due to Broadcom BCM43602 wifi adapter.

I spent many hours and nights googling, experimenting, reading git tickets and messages in the ML. None provided the final guide, but many little pieces that I am assembling in the Macbook troubleshooting document.

I came up with a running system, that still need more work. For the time being I have a working setup and I hope to be helpful to other macbook users.

Dear Qubes developers: please, review my guide and maybe let's open some specific mail/ticket to discuss and troubleshoot specific issues. I am more than willing to help.

Thanks
Marco

[berzer...@gmail.com]

Hi Marco,

I've been trying to get Qubes R3.2 running on my MacBookPro11,1 without any luck (I posted here for help a few weeks ago). I was wondering whether I could read your guide?

Take care,
Chris

[Jean-Philippe Ouellet]

It has been merged into the main documentation available on qubes-os.org

You can view the specific changes he's referring to here:
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-doc/pull/295/files

[Marco Pozzato]

Hi Chris

I added a specific section at https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/macbook-troubleshooting/#macbook-pro-retina-15-inch-mid-2015-macbookpro-115

Mark