QTW status in Qubes 3.2

[Raymond Rizzuto]

I'm looking to find out the status of Qubes tools for Windows in Qubes 3.2. Is it stable enough that I could run a Windows VM for things like Quicken? Does it support audio devices yet?

[Andrew David Wong]

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Still in testing/development, but might be stable enough for your
usage. (Consider testing it if you can.) No audio yet, AFAIK.

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

On Tuesday, January 3, 2017 at 3:22:35 PM UTC-5, Raymond Rizzuto wrote:
> I'm looking to find out the status of Qubes tools for Windows in Qubes 3.2. Is it stable enough that I could run a Windows VM for things like Quicken? Does it support audio devices yet?

Is QTW still in active development? Will there be a QTW for Qubes 4, or has it been deprecated? I'm still hoping to be able to have a Windows VM under qubes for Quicken, possibly a few other apps I can't (easily) replace with Linux equivalents.

Yes, I know there are alternatives to Quicken, but I have been using Quicken since the 90's, and have a lot of data in it that I want to keep.

[Grzesiek Chodzicki]

W dniu wtorek, 3 stycznia 2017 21:22:35 UTC+1 użytkownik Raymond Rizzuto napisał:
> I'm looking to find out the status of Qubes tools for Windows in Qubes 3.2. Is it stable enough that I could run a Windows VM for things like Quicken? Does it support audio devices yet?

You can pass a whole PCI device to the VM in order to have sound. It doesn't support the Qubes audio protocol yet.

[P R]

Hello Raymond,

Am 01.08.2017 3:10 nachm. schrieb "Raymond Rizzuto" <ray.r...@gmail.com>:

Is QTW still in active development?  Will there be a QTW for Qubes 4, or has it been deprecated?  I'm still hoping to be able to have a Windows VM under qubes for Quicken, possibly a few other apps I can't (easily) replace with Linux equivalents.

I am using Qubes 3.2 with a Windows 7 HVM and yes Windows is working under Qubes.

If you follow the excellent documentation you should be able to get things running within 1 hour.

Install Windows 7, install Qubes Tools for seamless mode.

Install Quicken.

Yes, I know there are alternatives to Quicken, but I have been using Quicken since the 90's, and have a lot of data in it that I want to keep.

As an IT solution provider I think that Windows support is very important to address business users in order to use Microsoft Office including Outlook/Exchange and native ERP/CRM applications.

Just start installing a Windows HVM and we'll guide you through the setup.

Starting point:

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

Kind regards

- PhR

[Raymond Rizzuto]

Is Qubes audio protocol on the roadmap for QTW? Passing the PCI device off to the windows VM - wouldn't that deny audio from the linux VMs? Plus, what if I had 2 Windows VMs?

[Raymond Rizzuto]

My last experience with QTW (see https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/qubes-users/qtw%7Csort:relevance/qubes-users/ByoDzOsqOcA/iwR52h_x6HYJ) was not awe inspiring. I'm hoping that QTW isn't the red haired step child of Qubes. Don't want to start a flame war, but Windows on Qubes is essential for me. Aside from Quicken, I need to use the company provided remote desktop tool (available only on Windows) when working from home.