Attaching/booting live distro on USB to HVM(fails)

[Qubical]

Hi,

It has been some time since Ive booted another distro on Qubes and I recall being able to attach my TailsOS usb drive in Qubes and boot from in a vm.
Whenever attach the whole volume block it states no boot and likewise attempting with selecting different partition blocks within it does the same(as expected). Ive tried with Kicksecure as well with no success.
I recall this being possible, and from the different documentation I read again about standalone HVMs and usb/block data supports this. Images within a qube works, but wish to boot from my usb devices within qubes.

Any idea or advice?

[Tezeria]

Tails HVM

Tails stands for The Amnesic Incognito Live System. It is a live operating system that aims to preserve your privacy and anonymity. Tails is intended to be booted off of a live CD and leave no trace on the computer it is run on, but using Tails this way requires the user to restart their computer every time they want to switch from their installed OS to Tails. Despite this, in case that method becomes cumbersome, Tails can be used inside virtualization software and Qubes. To run Tails under Qub…

instead of using
qvm-start Tails --cdrom=isoVM:/home/user/Downloads/tails.iso
you can go to your HVM’s settings → advanced en select “Boot qube from DISC or block device”

[barto]

@Qubical

Any idea or advice?

Are you using the ISO? because the default .img Tails download is not an ISO image!

See:

How to create a TailsOS standaloneVM inside QubesOS

I know TailsOS offers best privacy when it is booted into. However, I will be using TailsOS strictly for testing purposes. I just tried creating a standalone qube with 2000 MB RAM, two virtual CPUs, and sys-net as its netqube. I tried “Boot qube from CD-ROM” in Qube Settings, and selected the tails-amd64-6.4.img. However, I am getting “Could not read the boot disk. No bootable device” error. Is there a way to get TailsOS run as a standaloneVM inside Qubes? Similar to how PrestiumOS was ba…

Direct link: Tails - Burning Tails on a DVD

[Qubical]

I am booting from my usb that is running TailsOS

[Qubical]

This is what I have tried in my original post and it fails

[Tezeria]

maybe I misunderstood but it seems that you said you were trying with your TAILS key. However, you can’t boot from your TAILS key but only from the.iso file As @barto said, just download the.iso image and boot directly on it with your HVM

@barto

Direct link: Tails - Burning Tails on a DVD