Qubes 4.0 with Windows 7 and some programs

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Hey guys,

i need your help and i would be happy if someone can help me. :)

So, I would like to describe my situation in detail.

My main operation system is Qubes 4.0 and on this i want try to install Windows 7 pro.

For the installation i want following this steps

1 Step: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/hvm/

2 Step: https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows-vm/#qubes-40---windows-vm-installation

Is this the correct way to make it perfect?

I am not a millionaire but very interessted to technical things. So i want install on Windows some programs which i never bought before. You know? ;) The risk by this is maleware and i not want to risk my security.

Is it possible to install this software on Windows OS?

I hope its okay to ask this here.

About your feedbacks, i would be very happy.

regards

[Sphere]

You will run into alot of trouble and figuring things out just to set the StandaloneVM up to a working state for running programs reliably. Use Qubes if you want to play around learning lots of things and well contributing to the development of Qubes Windows Tools through testing but if all you need is running programs, then just use Ubuntu and setup a VMware Workstation running Windows which is cosmically easier.

Reliable Windows on top of Qubes is still under development and even I thought it would be viable to have a flawlessly working Windows 7 on top of Qubes before, I was apparently wrong.

[Ivan Mitev]

Windows works reliably under Qubes (like any other HVM by the way).

The problems people have been mentioning here and on github are related
to Qubes Windows Tools (QWT) under Qubes OS R4. Until recently there was
no 4.x version of the tools so one had to use QWT for R3.2 under R4,
with some issues. Marek has updated the tools but there are problems
with the new version.

FWIW I've been using Win7 without any stability problems under R4.0 with
QWT for R3.2, so I guess the OP won't have any problem to run whatever
program he sees fit - provided those aren't 3D hungry apps (but then it
is a limitation of all VMs, not only Windows ones).

Regards,
Ivan

[Sphere]

I wanna ask, were you able to do a PCI passthrough of your GPU in that Windows VM?

[Ivan Mitev]

I didn't try that (I only have one GPU). The following doc may help:

https://github.com/Qubes-Community/Contents/blob/master/docs/misc/iaq.md#xen-passthrough-compatible-video-cards

[Epinsion Polickye]

I've been able to get Windows 7 working in a standaloneVM HVM, no seamless mode. You'll come across issues along the way. There are some links and sources in this post that may assist you: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/qubes-users/RZaRJt4kbbA