QWT (support for Windows in Qubes OS) is not available anymore. When will this be solved?

[adw]

@balko

The issue with Windows not working properly on Qubes OS R4.2 should be indeed addressed sooner. It is one of major features of the Qubes OS, that is broken that much first time in its history.

Also we should take into account the fact that user cannot use VirtualBox or other software to run Windows in Qubes OS. Windows has to work on Xen, no alternative running solutions are available (right?)

@savi

If you have a “powerful” computer you can install standalone like example Fedora then on it install virtualbox and there windows system.

I think some people are confused. Windows VMs still work perfectly fine in Qubes OS with no security problems. It’s only Qubes Windows Tools (QWT) that currently have a problem. If you can live without the special features QWT provides (e.g., easy copy/paste and file transfer), you can simply use Windows like any other HVM with no problem, just as you have always been able to. (For example, to work around the file transfer part, you could simply use your own encrypted file transfer method to transfer files over the internet to yourself instead, like 7zip-encrypted files on cloud storage or something.)