Whonix Installer keeps telling me to reboot on Fedora 43

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I am using Fedora Workstation 43, I keep encountering this no matter how many times I reboot:

whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Installer: ‘Whonix LXQt for VirtualBox Installer’
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Saving user log to: ‘/home/user/dist-installer-cli-download/logs/5/user.log’
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Saving debug log to: ‘/home/user/dist-installer-cli-download/logs/5/debug.log’
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Architecture detected: ‘x86_64’
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: System detected: ‘Linux’
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Distribution/Derivative name detected: ‘Fedora Linux 43 (Workstation Edition)’ / ‘(No derivative detected.)’
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Distribution/Derivative version detected: ‘43’ / ‘(No derivative detected.)’
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: dist-installer-cli version: ‘whonix-lxqt-installer-cli 37.1-1’
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: VirtualBox Installation: Required system virtualization packages are being installed… Please wait, this process may take a few minutes…
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Package List Update: Updating package list…
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Command executing: $ sudo – dnf --assumeyes update
Updating and loading repositories:
Repositories loaded.
Nothing to do.
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Kernel modules configuration: disabling KVM enable_virt_at_load to avoid conflicts with VirtualBox (KVM remains usable).
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Kernel modules configuration: File ‘/etc/modprobe.d/disable-kvm-virt-at-load.conf’ contents:
## Prevent VirtualBox and KVM from conflicting. This does not break KVM.
options kvm enable_virt_at_load=0
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Kernel modules configuration: KVM enable_virt_at_load disabled (modprobe.d configured).
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Kernel modules configuration: attempting hot unload of KVM kernel modules (required for VirtualBox auto-start).
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Command executing: $ sudo – modprobe --remove – kvm_intel kvm
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Command executing: $ sudo – modprobe – kvm kvm_intel
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [NOTICE]: Kernel modules configuration: KVM kernel modules reloaded; VirtualBox should function.
sudo: /usr/bin/needs-restarting: command not found
whonix-lxqt-installer-cli [ERROR]: Reboot Check Result: Your system reports that a reboot is required.*

Please reboot your system and restart this installer.

Debugging information: needs-restarting reported that a reboot is required.

How to deal with it?

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This looks like a Fedora-specific installer bug. The best solution short-term would be to install VirtualBox manually, then import the Whonix OVA file into it, and skip using the installer. (The installer doesn’t get much testing on Fedora at the moment.)

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