compatibility question; qubes 4.0 on intel i3-4360T ?

[chrisro...@gmail.com]

Hello all,

I am trying to get Qubes 4.0 running on an Intel i3-4360T chipset with ASROCK E3C226D2I motherboard. The architecture apparently supports VT-x according to the tests I did in accordance with the Qubes docs, so I hoped I was set.

However, Qubes' installer tells me that my system apparently lacks IOMMU/VT-d/AMD-VI, and Interrupt Remapping. I was running the installer from a 8GB USB stick formatted with dd in Linux.

Is that the end of my Qubes journey right there (short of getting new hardware), or are there BIOS settings I could check, etc? Advice would be greatly appreciated.

[chrisro...@gmail.com]

Also, assuming this is a dead end for my hardware, what would my next-best option be? Linux on top of Xen?

[awokd]

Yes, check your BIOS settings and make sure the virtualization options are
enabled. There may be multiple. If support is broken on your machine, you
can still run Qubes 3.2 on it but it will be EOL in a few months...

[chrisro...@gmail.com]

On Thursday, September 6, 2018 at 11:35:15 AM UTC-7, awokd wrote:

> On Thu, September 6, 2018 5:12 am, wrote:
> > On Wednesday, September 5, 2018 at 10:04:12 PM UTC-7,

> > wrote:
> >> Hello all,
> >>
> >>
> >> I am trying to get Qubes 4.0 running on an Intel i3-4360T chipset with
> >> ASROCK E3C226D2I motherboard. The architecture apparently supports
> >> VT-x according to the tests I did in accordance with the Qubes docs, so
> >> I hoped I was set.
> >>
> >>
> >> However, Qubes' installer tells me that my system apparently lacks
> >> IOMMU/VT-d/AMD-VI, and Interrupt Remapping. I was running the
> >> installer from a 8GB USB stick formatted with dd in Linux.
> >>
> >> Is that the end of my Qubes journey right there (short of getting new
> >> hardware), or are there BIOS settings I could check, etc? Advice would
> >> be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Also, assuming this is a dead end for my hardware, what would my
> > next-best option be? Linux on top of Xen?
>
> Yes, check your BIOS settings and make sure the virtualization options are
> enabled. There may be multiple. If support is broken on your machine, you
> can still run Qubes 3.2 on it but it will be EOL in a few months...

Thanks awokd, I checked more thoroughly and it looks like my model simply lacks VT-d alltogether, according to Intel. I'll have to revisit Qubes another time I guess, unfortunately.