I could not find any official statement about this on the Whonix documentation. Is it recommended or not recommended? Is there any way it could compromise anonymity if I enable nested virtualization for the workstation in VBox?

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Hi. I’ve ran whonix in VM (Oracle) just fine for a long time, but recently this month some applications like tor, or electrum won’t connect online.

But for example, things that don’t require connection like xKeyPass or GPA work just fine.

Nothings wrong with my internet; other OS’s connect to tor and electrum & all the applications that won’t run on whonix, all run fine.

What could be the issue? Or how might i go about troubleshooting? without having to completely wipe.

Again im running it through Oracle VMbox.

I've never had this error before, I haven't found any solutions...

My operating system is Linux, more specifically the "BigLinux" distro.

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How can i install whonix to my M1 macbook (2020).

I was trying to connect proxy using Wizard before connecting to Tor. Everything was OK but while connecting I got stuck at 2%. If someone is familiar with this problem please tell me what to do.

I'm 90% sure that the error is in the debian VM but the setup goes like this:
My computer -> Proxmox -> Debian VM with mullvadVPN -> Whonix -> the wonderful www
I think that the problem lies between the VPN and whonix connection and that I have to do some extra configuration. I'm a little bit of a noob when it comes to this. Haven't seen this kind of setup referenced anywhere. Anyway this is what I'm getting:

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This is what the friendly manual says:
How to add the VPN in Host OS

Use the host operating system's built-in tools connect to your VPN or use the software provided by your VPN service.

I installed mullvadVPN's GUI on debian and seems to work inside debian, the problem is when I try to use it before whonix. Basically I want a VPN -> Tor setup.

Any extra resources are welcome, not scared of technical details but I need a place to start. Ty in advance.

Edit: it seems to work but it's incredibly inconsistent, Idk how to explain it or debug it, sometimes it'd work and all of the sudden no internet, no idea.

Hi friends, I'm sorry if the question is wrong or ignorant. But I've read a lot on reddit about CPU (IME/PSP) and Motherboard (TPM) chips, and from what I've read they can access your PC at any time.

So I was wondering if Whonix can prevent this, or there is no way to prevent it.

I have another ignorant question. In case Whonix can't protect against hardware intrusion, why would Whonix be recommended over another Virtual-OS?

Is it assumed that no matter how secure Whonix is, if someone wants to know who you are, they can access your hardware and bypass Whonix security, via hardware?

So what would be the solution, buy hardware without these chips? (if they exist)

Again, I apologize if my questions are wrong, I ask from ignorance to learn how all this works.

Thanks in advance.

Hey everyone,

I'm curious about the privacy implications of using VirtualBox, especially since it's an Oracle product. I find it interesting that Whonix, which prioritizes privacy and security, recommends VirtualBox as one of the preferred installation methods. If there were serious concerns about it compromising privacy, why would it be promoted by Whonix?

Can anyone provide more insight into this? Is VirtualBox truly safe to use from a privacy standpoint, or are there any risks we should be aware of? I’d also appreciate any explanations about why this is the preferred option for Whonix, and whether there are better alternatives for those who are privacy-focused.

Looking for answers beyond “it’s open-source, just compile it and check,” if possible.

Thanks!

Does anybody know of a good app to replace whatever the standard one is on an Android. Of course it was on the Google Play store! Something that is a little more private.

Hello, I am quite new to computers. I'm trying to install whonix on a USB key but I'm having a lot of difficulty. Can anyone help me or give me some advice? I have already installed VirtualBox and whonix on my computer, wouldn't I be able to make a copy would it be easier to install it on a USB key whonix tells me that I have to install kicksecure it's really essential for install whonix on usb key I can't at all

I'm a whonix noob pretty bad at using command lines can someone give me a step by step guide on how to install Jdownloader in whonix. Thanks

Hello, i'm trying to get whonix on my macbook with a m2 ship can you help me ?

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Installed Whonix-Xfce-17.2.0.7.Intel_AMD64 for QEMU/KVM on fedora 40 today. Everything seems to work fine, I can start and use Whonix gateway and workstation. But I'd like to understand this error message above.

Any ideas?

Second topic: why is libvirtd "preset:disabled"? I thought it was on "autostart" or whatever this is called...

(am pretty new to this stuff so please be patient with me)

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I'd like to read the Whonix documentation:

https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Documentation

Unfortunately it's all web pages, which I dislike. Are all these articles availabe as PDF documents or is there a tool to transfer those web pages in PDF automatically?

Thanks in advance.

Hey guys! I’m trying to connect whonix to Kali. I am connecting eth1 with the correct numbers, and I can search on the internet.

But I can not pass the DNS test. I’m steal leaking.

Not I can’t find the articles on the proper setup.

Any one can help???

Thanks!!!!

I’m just curious

I just did a fresh install of Kicksecure and for some reason when I try to run whonix-xfce-installer-cli it always fails (even if I use any of the other mirrors). it only works if I use the --onion flag but it's saying it'll take 14 hours. I kept getting this error while running it

"(35) OpenSSL/3.0.13: error:0A00010B:SSL routines::wrong version number"

I tried visiting the whonix website in Firefox and I get this:

"
Secure Connection Failed

An error occurred during a connection to www.whonix.org. SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.

Error code: SSL_ERROR_RX_RECORD_TOO_LONG

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.

Please contact the website owners to inform them of this problem.

Learn more…

"

Could someone please point me in the right direction?

If I ssh out of the workstation will that go over Tor? Will that come back to my ip?

So I'm using Ubuntu 22.04

Ok so I know I need to uninstall virtualbox 6.1 but how? So what command do I use to uninstall virtualbox? Certainly there must be someone here who knows the proper way to uninstall virtualbox?

And do I need to uninstall whonix? I mean what do I do with whonix? To me it just seems easier to uninstall and reinstall whonix. What do I do and tell me how to do it please? Like what commands do I enter?

Ok so on the virtualbox website, on the download page https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads ok so I have downloaded VirtualBox 7.0.20 for Linux and I chose Ubuntu 22.04, ok so I've already done that step. Now here is where I'm not sure what to do so I've got a bunch of questions for you so please bear with me.

So for the section that says "Oracle Linux" so do I enter in command line this

yum install VirtualBox-7.0

to get the latest maintenance release of VirtualBox 7.0 installed? And do I do this before installing virtualbox 7.0? Or do I do this after installing VB 7.0?

Now when it says "Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list. For Debian 11 and older, replace '<mydist>' with 'bullseye', 'buster', or 'stretch'. For Ubuntu 22.04 and older, 'replace '<mydist>' with 'jammy', 'eoan', 'bionic', 'xenial'," Can I skip this step? I'm confused here I don't know what to do.

"Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list" What does it mean? Do I even need to do this?

I'm assuming I can just skip the steps where it talks about verifying the signature and the fingerprint?

And finally is this the correct command to install VB 7.0

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-7.0

So is virtualbox 7.0 going to automatically update itself?

So for those of you who deleted VB 6.1 and then installed VB 7.0 did you have to uninstall whonix and then reinstall whonix? If you didn't have to delete whonix, how did you do this and be specific please? I'm a newbie and I really need detailed step by step instructions on how to do this.

Let me give you some backstory on this, so I have looked at all the tutorials on the internet that show you how to install virtualbox on Linux and they are all wrong, they're all out of date and incorrect now, not a single one is correct.

Take this one for example https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-install-virtualbox-in-linux/ if you do what this tutorial tells you do to do

sudo apt install virtualbox

It will simply install VB 6.1 and I'm trying to install the latest version of VB. Thank you for helping me I do appreciate it. I'm a newbie when it comes to Linux so I do really appreciate the help.

I’m interested in using Whonix on a VPS that I would connect to via VNC. I recall seeing in the documentation that this is feasible. My question is: what specifications should the VPS have? For instance, a VPS with 4GB RAM and 4 CPUs costs $55, which is quite a lot. Are there any other hosting options that might be more affordable and suitable for VNC remote desktop?

Hi. Where to find terminal color theme file in whonix and kicksecure? How do I add a user terminal color theme to admin profile?

I’m running whonix and virtual box. And I want to connect it to Cali, which is running in VMware.

It’s tutorial that I’m following has them both running and virtual box and for the type of connection they have it set to internal .

What would I said to if I’m trying to connect it to VMware??