Well as total linux noob I can’t believe I even got this far lol
Managed to get debian bullseye setup ok
KVM seems setup ok
Whonix giving me issues though.
In KVM, gateway is available and so is workstation.
However when I enter gateway I notice a message something about guest turned off. Is that normal?
Anyway I ignored that and pressed the play button. First of all giving me a load of options about username being user and password being changeme. I kept those as is for now.
Done all that then restarted the laptop.
After the restart I went back into KVM and started gateway which shows me a little blue box for the 3 options. Box stays there for about 5 secs and Which ever option I choose I then get a black screen with blinking underscore cursor and does nothing.
As someone very new to this I wondered if I could be instructed on how to combat this?
I noticed on here a discussion about creating a file but I don’t know how to get root privs in DIRs to create files in them… I’m that new!
Please assist because I can’t get any further than this. Thanks.
The XFCE desktop no longer works if less than 1gb ram is assigned. A gig for the gateway is excessive and I will never bump it up that much so if you need to temporarily adjust the settings via GUI, just bump the RAM up and reboot the vm.
Thanks for getting back to me. Bumping gateway up to beyond 1gb has fixed the issue. However do i do the same with workstation or can that remain the same? Thanks again
When I start Whonix gateway after installing it, it won’t start properly. The grub screen appears but then it results in a blank screen with a blinking cursor. The Workstation works fine though. I gave it 512mb ram and 2 threads but I’m not sure whats going on.
It’s just down to the change of display manager used in Debian 11 versus Debian 10. Debian 10 used ‘lightdm’ which could boot the X server with only 512 MB of ram, whereas Debian 11 is using ‘gdm3’ which needs more than that. Since Whonix 16 is based on Debian 11 it is using gdm3 instead of lightdm like it used to. As to why gdm3 needs more resources than lightdm, you’d have to take that up with the gnome developers–my guess is that they decided to be inefficient with memory use since there is so unlikely to be any systems with less than 1 GB of ram.
I don’t expect any solution can be found to lower gdm3 memory requirements, at very least not in the short term.
In that case I would suggest to lower the default RAM to boot into CLI mode, document that and advice to increase RAM to however much is required for first boot (to use GUI for initial setup) and/or whenever GUI is required. Messy usability wise and not great to have such platform specific differences but possible for Whonix KVM maintainer decision.
There is quite a chance to have freezing issues during upgrades or above operations. (First one happening during upgrades, second one happening later during the release cycle.)
There’s none. Latest git currently “unstable” (not ready for point release soon).
With the git submodules it requires quite some git knowledge and is even a bit cumbersome to create a stable branch. You could
