well I have read the documentation of installing Qubes Windows Tools. Especially the known limitations of that software on, link: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3585 . Also I discovered this video tutorial on you-tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mGop1B-kqU . The author, Mr. Chris Titus, of this video, which is from October 27th in 2019. Came to the conclusion that it is at that moment not advisable to install Qubes Tools for Windows.
Therefore I have this question: Do you think this issue changed in the meantime? Or is it better to wait for some time until the team of Qubes OS have programmed the necessary software. So that everything is running smoothly.
Since I am not in a hurry to install Qubes Tools for Windows.
Hi,
Thank you so much for your advice so far. I managed to complete on web site https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/windows-tools/ up to step Nr. 9. However there is no window appearing if I start my Windows 10 VM. My task manager is telling me that I use 42 % of my memory which is 16 GB. And if I want to shutdown the Windows 10 VM after 8 minutes of nothing visible happening, I have to kill it. Since there are some processes running inside the VM, which are not visible to me.
Not sure if I can help with the rest, this part here confused me. Supposedly here you have allocated a fixed amount of memory since windows allegedly doesn’t do well memory balancing. Did you follow the guide on the docs to create the windows VMs?
Hi,
as far as I can see I followed the instructions on this page.
However I unchecked memory balancing and I gave the windows 10 StandaloneVM Initial memory 5000 MB.
Is this what you are referring to?
Thank you.
Stay healthy & safe
Hi,
through the Qubes OS mailing list I have come across the following interesting documentation on setting up a Microsoft Windows 10 qube, link: https://github.com/elliotkillick/qvm-create-windows-qube/blob/master/README.md . However I do not understand what is meant by “<qube_script_is_located_on>” in step number 2 of the instructions. Since I am no expert in coding. Could somebody please explain this to me?
well I just ran the command in the dom0 terminal: sudo qubes-dom0-update qubes-windows-tools . This successfully installed qubes-windows-tools.noarch 4.0.1-3 in dom0 :
However in order to test my successful installation I tried to test my clipboard to copy text from AppVM vault to StandaloneVM windows-10. This was not working.
As far as I know this is the main feature of Qubes-Windows-Tools.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
Does anyone have an idea how to get my clipboard working?
Well I found this command in an external site outside of the official Qube OS documentation.
However now I am following the instructions of the official Qubes OS instructions. Therefore I include 2 screenshots of my last 2 configuration steps. After step Nr. 7 my GUI of Windows 10 is not starting anymore. So I think that my mistake is in this installation of the Qubes Windows Tools.
