Hi, some irl stuff taking lot of time, so I didn’t make any progress.
Some important things have been merged already.
If you use the latest official development build (R4.2), you will have thoses issues:
- Need to manually configure the x2apic. Some workaround exist (Improve X2APIC compatibility with modern AMD platform · Issue #8111 · QubesOS/qubes-issues · GitHub)
- Graphical driver are borked, the ISO I published doesn’t have this issue, but I don’t known what is the thing that broke it, no doubt it is Qubes specific (graphical instabilities, crashes)
For my specific motherboard:
- Wifi work most of the time. When it stop working, you need to unplug power for few seconds. This issue is not related to xen and not related to Qubes. I need to complain again to have some answer from asus.
- Ethernet will work time to time. Ethernet seems to not like VM/IOMMU, it will disconnect after some time of use. You need to reboot the computer to fix it.
For specific things:
- I was unable to passthrough the IGPU. It is bug in the amdgpu driver I think.
Overall: It can work, you can make it stable. But it don’t work out of the box, and it is not stable out of the box.
Some things still need to be fixed on Qubes side
Some things still need to be fixed on Xen hypervisor side
Some things still need to be fixed on Asus side
Update: the graphical driver issue was not related to Qubes OS, it was related to recent asus bios that incorrectly handle CPU voltage by default. Manually setting the CPU voltage fix this issue