Current chances of successful Qubes-3.2 on iMac 27" Retina, Mac OSX Sierra 10.12.3 (i5, Radeon M380)

[dave m.]

It looks like there are occasionally people who want to run Qubes on a Mac, and also some partial success stories. However, the most recent I can find are from a while ago, with previous versions of Qubes, previous OSX, and older Macs.

Is there an updated Howto or more recent info about this? I have a late 2015 27" Retina iMac (model iMac17,1), i5 processor, Radeon R9 M380 video. I would like to run Qubes, with Mac OSX, Linux and Win7 guests. (My current setup is OSX host, with Linux and Win7 guests under VMWare or Parallels; this works OK, but I wanted to try Qubes for security.)

I did manage to boot a Qubes-3.2 USB drive, but it stops shortly after the initial (Grub?) bootscreen, when you select "Install..." It says "Xen 4.6.1 (c/s ) EFI loader, using configuration [...], vmlinuz [...], initrd.img [...]"

(I'm guessing the video is going elsewhere, but I don't know where!)

Thanks!

[Andrew David Wong]

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On 2017-02-04 10:43, dave m. wrote:
> It looks like there are occasionally people who want to run Qubes
> on a Mac, and also some partial success stories. However, the
> most recent I can find are from a while ago, with previous versions
> of Qubes, previous OSX, and older Macs.
>
> Is there an updated Howto or more recent info about this?

Your best bet is to search the mailing list archives and to look at
this page (if you haven't already):

https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/macbook-troubleshooting/

> I have a late 2015 27" Retina iMac (model iMac17,1), i5 processor,
> Radeon R9 M380 video. I would like to run Qubes, with Mac OSX,
> Linux and Win7 guests. (My current setup is OSX host, with Linux
> and Win7 guests under VMWare or Parallels; this works OK, but I
> wanted to try Qubes for security.)
>

On Mac OS X as a VM, see:

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1982

> I did manage to boot a Qubes-3.2 USB drive, but it stops shortly
> after the initial (Grub?) bootscreen, when you select "Install..."
> It says "Xen 4.6.1 (c/s ) EFI loader, using configuration [...],
> vmlinuz [...], initrd.img [...]"
>
> (I'm guessing the video is going elsewhere, but I don't know
> where!)
>
> Thanks!
>

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