Does Qubes OS Support AMD Mainboards?

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I wonder that the QubesOS developers can makes QubesOS support AMD mainboards?

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In what way or ways do you feel that Qubes OS doesn’t support AMD systems?

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I search on Qubes Community forum. I noticed that most of the user with AMD laptop, and the others are claiming is not working well.

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Can I use AMD-v instead of VT-x?

Yes, and see this message.

Example of a working device from the HCL:

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I’m using an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HX and I have no issues. I had to disable global c-states in the BIOS but this is an AMD issue and not a QubesOS on AMD issue. Quite a few OSes have issues with AMD c-states.

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Thank you for the information. What do you think of Framework Laptop mainboard. It can be support QubesOS?

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I have the framework 16. It runs qubes very well.

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The Framework Laptop 16 only have AMD, which GPU have? Does not need adjust something in the BIOS? At the moment that I have Framework Laptop 13. I hope Framework Laptop 12 can supported as well.

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I have the 7700s dgpu. Nothing needed to be changed in the bios except turning off secure boot. Take a look at the various hcls for the framework devices, it seems that most have no or very few problems

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i having hard time to know where to turn off the secure boot in my Framework Laptop 13 (intel Core Ultra 7 165).

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In the bios (access by hitting f2 during boot) select the administer secure boot option and disable enforce secure boot

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Qubes OS does support AMD:

But there are some caveats about AMD on that page worth reading.

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Shouldn’t the question be reversed? AMD (and Intel) should support qubes, or even linux in general, better. Can’t make bread out if stone.

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