Windows installation in Qubes

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Documentation : Windows-10 installation on Qubes R4.0

For someone looking tutorial document for Windows-10 installation on Qubes R4.0 Change <*> part to your current circumstance. Notice 0. This installation process is based on Qubes R4.0 and QWT 4.0.1-3. I recommend you to use Windows-10 as AppVM based on TemplateVM. If you don’t, there will be several restriction such as lowering possiblity of BSOD, working QWT correctly, and decreasing your effort for software update. Please backup Windows VM in each process (I mean cloning). If you fai…

Testing Windows and QWT in R4.1

I have tried what happens in Qubes R4.1 (Version 20201014 Alpha) with Windows and QWT 4.0.1.3. So far, the following results are obtained: For Windows 7 with QWT installed, the VM from R4.0 can be imported, but not started - error in libxenlight : Couldn't open /sys/bus/pci/drivers/pciback/allow_interrupt_control: File or directory not found The VM stays in an intrermediate state, shown as running or starting, but it cannot be shutdown or killed, claiming it were not running. For Windows 1…

Windows support in Qubes

After a sleepless night, I came up with some considerations, and I hope I can start a discussion based on these ideas. Currently, about three fourths of all desktop computer are using Windows as their operating system, despite serious security problems. Still about one sixth of them are still using Windows 7, although support for this version has been canceled last year. The majority of the Windows systems - about 80 % - are using Windows 10, which poses severe security risks: Each month, Micro…