NOTE: You can only install Qubes on
a 64-bit CPU! (most recent laptops have 64-bit CPUs)
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 13 Linux ¶
NOTE: If you're migrating from Qubes Alpha 1, and want to preserve your AppVMs (specifically your data), you should use qvm-backup tool to make a backup (Qubes Alpha 3 will let you automatically restore it later).
NOTE: Do not try to install Qubes Alpha 3 on top of an already installed Qubes Alpha 1 -- you should reinstall everything from scratch!
NOTE: If you're migrating from Qubes Alpha 2, however, then yum update executed in Dom0 konsole should do the work, and you could skip this guide. Some people reported problems when upgrading from Alpha 2 to Alpha 3, so it seems like it might better to reinstall from scratch in that case too.
First we need to install a minimal Linux distribution that would later become our Dom0 system.
We strongly recommend choosing a 64-bit Fedora 13 distribution.1. Download the 64-bit version of Fedora 13 installation DVD ISO: http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora-all...and burn it on a DVD. Proceed with the default installation...
2. When asked about type of installation, choose Graphical Workstation (this is selected by default), and choose Customize now...
3. ...in the next screen choose only the following groups of packages: (i.e. uncheck all the other groups)
* Desktop Environments/KDE
* Applications/Editors
* Base System/Base
* Base System/Fonts
* Base System/Hardware Support
* Base System/X Window System
You really won't need anything more in Dom0 (even this is too much).