On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 15:32:41 -0400
Andy Powell <[email protected]> wrote:
>Well that clears it up! Thanks!!!
>
>Very surprising...guess I’ll go to another distro. Bye Qubes!
>
>> On Oct 29, 2018, at 2:51 PM, Fidel Ramos <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
>>> On Monday, October 29, 2018 6:20 PM, Andy Powell <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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
>>
>> 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.
>
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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