I have now re-tested with a stock KVM installation, no Kicksecure on the host, and still I have issue with Tor being stuck at 30%.
It looks like this could be related to:
https://forums.whonix.org/t/screenshot-of-gw-active-tor-and-correct-sdwdate-ws-with-systemcheck-error/16613
…But I don’t see any improvement by force setting the VMs date/time. So it seems not.
When I ran the below:
sudo iptables -I INPUT -m state —state RELATED -j ACCEPT
…Tor connects successfully.
It seems that the RELATED state appears to be required for the latest version of Whonix GW to work with KVM.
Software versions for reference:
- Debian 11.7.0 (Note: with non-free NIC driver using bnx2 module)
- qemu-system-x86 1:5.2+dfsg-11+deb11u2
- Whonix-Gateway-XFCE-16.0.9.8
Happy to test anything else that could be useful.
I would suggest my PR could be helpful to provide an optional configuration option which may help alleviate this issue for other users:
Can anyone disprove my findings in their environment?