Author: Jurre Date: To: The Tails public development discussion list, Santhosh CC: Sofia Celi, cristina Subject: Re: [Tails-dev] Seeking advice on building Tails in a VM
Hey,
I'm in contact with Santhosh off-list.
Best,
Jurre
On 4/18/19 2:56 PM, Santhosh wrote: > Hello Tails Development Team
>
> I was going through some of the documentation regarding building[1]
> "Tails" distribution. I have hit a wall regarding continuing the build
> beyond making sure there is a sane development environment with the
> right set of tools.
>
> The problem I face is with respect to the KVM. Since I do not have
> direct access to a bare-metal server / a server which runs Xen
> Hypervisor capable of running a domU with Debian / a Linux VM with
> nested virtualization support where I can do the build via
> vagrant-libvirt using KVM back-end. The builds fail with a call to
> "virDomainCreateWithFlags".
>
> I have access to VirtualBox but looking up online that is not sufficient
> enough to do VT-d/VT-x passthrough to my guest Linux. My bare-metal
> machine is not equipped to handle builds like Tails.
>
> I also do not mind Vagrant[2] trying use a different back-end like Qemu
> without KVM if needed to do the builds, but I am not aware of how to do
> this in the current setup.
>
> Looking for suggestions or pointers or documentation for getting this
> build working without too much hassle.
>
> Thank you
>
> References
>
> 1. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/build/ > 2. https://tails.boum.org/contribute/build/vagrant-setup/ >
> Regards
> Santhosh
>
>
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