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On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 04:19:11PM +0100, Andrew Clausen wrote:
> Hi jmp,
> 
> On 28 July 2016 at 16:13, J.M. Porup <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Wow, that's very cool. And at UniMelb!
> >
> > Couldn't you achieve the same results by booting Qubes on a USB stick?
> 
> Maybe.  The main problem is that Qubes isn't very compatible with most
> laptops.  Last year, Qubes was incompatible with UEFI firmware, which
> ruled out all of the students' laptops.  This year, we need to
> experiment to see how compatible it is.
> 
> I did try a bit: I tried installing Qubes on a friend's Mac PowerBook,
> but Grub didn't install correctly.  (I think it installed the 32-bit
> rather than the 64-bit version of Grub, and I didn't have time to fix
> it.)
> 
> The big picture is: I think Qubes will have lots of compatibility
> problems for the forseeable future, so Virtual Box compatibility would
> be a big help.

Have you tried this? AFAIR some time ago it worked. Horribly slow, but
still. Also all installer screenshots on our website are done by
booting it inside virtualbox ;)

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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