Questions before installing Qubes OS

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@whiteman808

Can I do GPU passthrough on Qubes and Qubes OS be used for running LLMs (…)

Yes, you can. Quite a few Qubes user did it including myself. Her is one sample guide:

Secure AI Inference with Qubes OS: A GPU Passthrough & Ollama Guide

This guide is made using AI. The model used was qwen3.5:27B This guide will go through the steps needed to set up a qube for running GPU accelerated AI inference, and how to integrate AI in multiple AppVMs using a single GPU. Hide the GPU from dom0 PCI devices cannot be assigned to multiple VMs simultaneously. You will crash the system if you attempt to pass a GPU to any VM while it remains attached to dom0. To prevent this, you must hide the GPU from dom0 before assigning it. In dom0, use l…

PCI passthrough success depends on your hardware virtualization.