OK, while I was not really able to find this information online, e.g. the official documents at qubes-os.org are rather silent on this topic and the stuff i find on reddit is rather outdated, i have (who provides a mind blowing support, btw) been confirmed that it is indeed possible to run a notebook with Qubes and external (usb) camera, microphone and Wifi/Wlan instead of inbuilt devices.
Regarding my original request, I have tested today to download Qubes-os-4.2 (final), make a boot USB out of the iso with the built in mint context menu from the mint filemanager and then boot from the usb. it detected immediately the usb image as valid ques source and so i was able to install everything on my external Western Digital 1 TB WD Red SA500 SATA SSD 2.5". However, when then trying to boot from that external Disk with F12 on the Thinkpad P15 Gen2, it would again not be able to boot from it. so i have now ordered a new notebook for the exclusive use of Qubes to celebrate Qubes 4.2 and thank you for the great work and support all the best Kai On Tuesday 19 December 2023 at 10:18:31 UTC Kai wrote: > Greetings! > > Today is a phantastic day as qubes 4.2 came out and do I am configuring a > laptop to order for it today. > > From a security point of view, it seems best to me to have webcam, > microphone, wlan and (optional) Bluetooth all via external usb devices, so > that they do not need to be blobs in the bios and so that I can make sure > that they are switched off when I don’t want them. I guess that this would > be the recommended practice by the qubes team as well? > > So the big question is wether qubes 4.2 fully supports such a setup? Also, > I see that there is the option to merge the net qubes and the usb qubes > into one at installation time. Would that be the recommended configuration > for using usb wlan dongles? > > All the best > Kai Froeb, São Martinho de Porto > Http://Kai.froeb.net > > This email was sent from my smartphone, so I apologise for the brevity > and any clerical errors. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/161a4130-f4d1-4239-a4a1-fd8db0432fean%40googlegroups.com.
