Whonix 8.6 KVM Error in Debian Stable

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For the mouse issue, according to this: 54387 – Upgrade to evdev-2.7.0 (from 2.6.0) breaks mouse wheel on qemu-kvm guest with usb-tablet option seems its a problem that occurs with the newer evdev package. Not able to test this yet.

This seems to be an issue with debian stable and the following patch should solve the resolution issue:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654823#22

Edit: would it be safe to switch to cirrus instead of qxl?

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I made a note about nested (Dev/KVM - Whonix), maybe I am getting to this.

Could you in meanwhile maybe on your host install Debian stable in a KVM VM… Then while using the Debian stable KVM VM, import Whonix, choose QEMU? It wouldn’t be 100% same setup, but I guess you could experience most issues we’re currently having.

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[quote=“gh0st, post:41, topic:368”]For the mouse issue, according to this: 54387 – Upgrade to evdev-2.7.0 (from 2.6.0) breaks mouse wheel on qemu-kvm guest with usb-tablet option seems its a problem that occurs with the newer evdev package. Not able to test this yet.

This seems to be an issue with debian stable and the following patch should solve the resolution issue:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654823#22

Edit: would it be safe to switch to cirrus instead of qxl?[/quote]
Answered here:

Too many issues here in one thread for my taste. (This is not a complaint!) I personally find it easier to solve all of them when we don’t loose track. I am trying to split up discussions.

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I made a note about nested (https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Dev/KVM#Nested_Virtualization), maybe I am getting to this.
Great, i look forward to it.
Could you in meanwhile maybe on your host install Debian stable in a KVM VM... Then while using the Debian stable KVM VM, import Whonix, choose QEMU? It wouldn't be 100% same setup, but I guess you could experience most issues we're currently having.

I will try this later on this week when I have time, but I’ll have to do this on a Whonix guest since using a plain Debian means that package requests will be sent in the clear - something I want to avoid. I hope libvirt would let me run qemu by itself, because it would always complain when KVM modules are not loaded because virtualization extensions are absent.