From f0f46f8591b46cf1e78b0bf89745cf1c4e05785f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joanna Rutkowska Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2010 14:37:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] InstallationGuide changed Added note about how bad idea it is to try to install Qubes in a VM... --- InstallationGuide.md | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/InstallationGuide.md b/InstallationGuide.md index 53e87b5c..d81bc104 100644 --- a/InstallationGuide.md +++ b/InstallationGuide.md @@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ permalink: /wiki/InstallationGuide/ Installation Guide (for Release 1 Alpha 1) ========================================== +**NOTE:** Do not try to install Qubes in a VM, e.g. VMWare. Qubes has its own bare-metal hypervisor, and, as the name suggests, it should be installed on a bare-metal, not in some VM. Even if you somehow succeed installing it inside some other VMM system, you will likely get horrible performance and perhaps even some strange crashes, caused by the outer VMM, that is obviously not prepared for running a nested hypervisor in its VMs. + At this stage we don't have a standalone automatic installer, so the installation process is currently a bit complicated and requires some knowledge of Linux. The installation consists of a few stages that are described in detail below... I. Installing Fedora 12 Linux