Qubes OS and encrypted guest disks possible?

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I have actually yet to try Qubes OS, but am currently looking into testing it. I have not much experience with the dom0 structure - have almost always used KVM/Qemu in the following way:

A debian based core system on a LUKS encrypted root partition and lib-virt which also automatically open and mount my LUKS encrypted partition containing an LVM2 container where all my guest os’es reside. The only part that is not encrypted is a very small boot partition.

Does Qubes support a similar disk encryption scheme, or what is best practices for disk encryption with Qubes?

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Hi @Kandresen, welcome to the Qubes Community! I’m glad you are interested in Qubes OS.

Qubes OS uses encryption in a similar way to other GNU/Linux OSes, and you can auto-mount encrypted disks, too.

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