Qubes OS via Nested Virtualization (?)

[ferociousmilkyway]

Has anyone here tried or gotten Qubes OS running on Proxmox via Nested Virtualization?

I did some searching (can't find anything) and I'm guessing anyone running Qubes OS would prefer it running on bare-metal for maximum security.

 

[LnxBil]

It is based on XEN, so it should work.

 

[fabian]

should work for evaluation purposes - but it kind of defeats the whole approach of qubes if you have another hypervisor on top of it

 

[ferociousmilkyway]

Thanks for the answers. Definitely just for evaluation. My old Laptop doesn't have VT-d and I want to see if upgrading would be worth it just for Qubes.

 

[Gyari]

Could someone manage to make Qubes OS work under Proxmox? Is there any special settings for it? Like kernel, scsi controller or something else?

This is how i set it up:

Memory: 8GB
Processors: 4(2 sockets, 2 cores) [host]
BIOS: Default (SeaBIOS)
Display: SPICE (qxl)
Machine: Default (i440fx)
SCSI Controller: VirtIO SCSI
Hard Drive: 100GB

Unfortunately i can't even boot the installation ISO, the guest is always rebooting.

Thanks any help you can provide!

 

[proximity]

Can't get it to work either. When installing on a machine without virtualization it gave a warning but at least installed. On proxmox I only see this:

 

[ph0x]

I could imagine that the installer refuses to run in a virtual environment. QubesOS is all about security which is pretty much obsolete when installed as a VM.

 

[Gyari]

Can't get it to work either. When installing on a machine without virtualization it gave a warning but at least installed. On proxmox I only see this:
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Unfortunately i can't even get that far. It is rebooting immediately after a couiple of seconds.

 

[Gyari]

I could imagine that the installer refuses to run in a virtual environment. QubesOS is all about security which is pretty much obsolete when installed as a VM.

Thanks. This could be a possible explanation. While i have my Qubes OS on real HW, i just wanted to make a virtual one just for testing some stuff. It is more convenient if i make any mistake i just roll back to my snapshot, then reinstall it again.

 

[ph0x]

I can relate. Maybe the Qubes community has had more luck in virtual environments?

 

[masonh]

I tried installing it last night and it warned me that some aspects were missing for qubes to work proprly and i contnued with the instalation and as i was going to school today it says the instalation failed