Installation Problem

Andy Powell

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Oct 29, 2018, 2:20:06 PM10/29/18

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Hello Qubes group!

I’m trying to install Qubes but it fails after “Test this media & install Qubes R4.0” at “Loading initrd.img”

I’m on a 2012 MacBook Pro, running Parallels (which I guess may be the issue, as 100% of your documentation refers to VirtualBox...do you support other hypervisors?)

I’ve followed everything as best I can and am stuck in an infinite loop. No issues running other major OS VMs (Ubuntu, Mint, Fedora, various Win, etc)

Please help! Thank you!

—Andy

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Fidel Ramos

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Oct 29, 2018, 2:51:32 PM10/29/18

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Running QubesOS inside a virtual machine is not supported, and as you found out it won't work in most configurations.

If you want to try out Qubes in your machine you could install it into a USB drive or USB HDD (i.e. put the installer into a USB drive, boot the installer, then install into a *different* USB drive). It will be slower, but you can see if it works with your hardware.

Andy Powell

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Oct 29, 2018, 3:32:46 PM10/29/18

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Well that clears it up! Thanks!!!

Very surprising...guess I’ll go to another distro. Bye Qubes!

Chris Laprise

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Oct 29, 2018, 7:49:59 PM10/29/18

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On 10/29/2018 03:32 PM, Andy Powell wrote:
> Well that clears it up! Thanks!!!
>
> Very surprising...guess I’ll go to another distro. Bye Qubes!
>

Its not surprising at all. Qubes is a bare-metal OS, and one of its core
features is to isolate risk at the hardware level. This means on a Mac
it _replaces_ OS X -- it doesn't run on it. A more logical arrangement
would be to run OS X on Qubes which is the reverse of what you seek.

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Stuart Perkins

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Oct 30, 2018, 7:58:27 AM10/30/18

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Qubes is, essentially, a Xen hypervisor (bare metal virtual machine host). It has added complexity to provide a more complete separation of programs and data, and further compartmentalize different areas of sensitivity such as general web browsing, password safe keeping, etc. You can configure different application VMS for different purposes and keep your information more secure than even a general virtual machine host such as Unix/VirtualBox or Windows/VMWare.

Attempting to run a Xen hypervisor inside of a VirtualBox or VMWare VM is illogical.

Qubes is not just another flavor of Linux.

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