Kicksecure for KVM

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About this KVM Page
Contributor maintained wiki page.
Support Status stable
Difficulty medium
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This is the KVM flavor of the Kicksecure project.

Info COMMUNITY SUPPORT ONLY : THIS WHOLE WIKI PAGE is only supported by the community. Kicksecure developers are very unlikely to provide free support for this content. See Community Support for further information, including implications and possible alternatives.

Introduction[edit]

Much of the warnings and use case instructions from the Kicksecure edition, such as running the OS headlessly or using shared folders, are applicable.

For more details about Kicksecure, check Kicksecure pages.

Support tickets should be forwarded to the KVM subforumarchive.org iconarchive.today icon.

Build from Scratch[edit]

Advanced users are encouraged to build Kicksecure images for high security assurance.

Download Kicksecure[edit]

By downloading, you acknowledge that you have read, understood and agreed to our Terms of Service and License Agreement.

FREE

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GUI

stable Xfce

Optional: Digital signature verification.

Version (stable): 17.3.9.9

Only experienced users: This step is only useful and recommended for very experienced users. All other user please skip this step.

  • Digital signatures are a tool enhancing download security. They are commonly used across the internet and nothing special to worry about.
  • Optional, not required: Digital signatures are optional and not mandatory for using Kicksecure, but an extra security measure for advanced users. If you've never used them before, it might be overwhelming to look into them at this stage. Just ignore them for now.
  • Learn more: Curious? If you are interested in becoming more familiar with advanced computer security concepts, you can learn more about digital signatures here digital software signatures.

Choose your verification method below. This step requires that you have already downloaded Kicksecure Xfce.

testers Xfce

Optional: Digital signature verification.

Version (testers): 17.3.9.2

Only experienced users: This step is only useful and recommended for very experienced users. All other user please skip this step.

  • Digital signatures are a tool enhancing download security. They are commonly used across the internet and nothing special to worry about.
  • Optional, not required: Digital signatures are optional and not mandatory for using Kicksecure, but an extra security measure for advanced users. If you've never used them before, it might be overwhelming to look into them at this stage. Just ignore them for now.
  • Learn more: Curious? If you are interested in becoming more familiar with advanced computer security concepts, you can learn more about digital signatures here digital software signatures.

Choose your verification method below. This step requires that you have already downloaded Kicksecure Xfce.
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CLI

stable CLI

Optional: Digital signature verification.

Version (stable): 17.3.9.9

Only experienced users: This step is only useful and recommended for very experienced users. All other user please skip this step.

  • Digital signatures are a tool enhancing download security. They are commonly used across the internet and nothing special to worry about.
  • Optional, not required: Digital signatures are optional and not mandatory for using Kicksecure, but an extra security measure for advanced users. If you've never used them before, it might be overwhelming to look into them at this stage. Just ignore them for now.
  • Learn more: Curious? If you are interested in becoming more familiar with advanced computer security concepts, you can learn more about digital signatures here digital software signatures.

Choose your verification method below. This step requires that you have already downloaded Kicksecure CLI.

testers CLI

Optional: Digital signature verification.

Version (testers): 17.3.9.2

Only experienced users: This step is only useful and recommended for very experienced users. All other user please skip this step.

  • Digital signatures are a tool enhancing download security. They are commonly used across the internet and nothing special to worry about.
  • Optional, not required: Digital signatures are optional and not mandatory for using Kicksecure, but an extra security measure for advanced users. If you've never used them before, it might be overwhelming to look into them at this stage. Just ignore them for now.
  • Learn more: Curious? If you are interested in becoming more familiar with advanced computer security concepts, you can learn more about digital signatures here digital software signatures.

Choose your verification method below. This step requires that you have already downloaded Kicksecure CLI.

Note: Save your download to your usual ~/Downloads folder.

Decompress[edit]

Use tar to decompress the archive.

tar -xvf Kicksecure*.libvirt.xz

Do not use unxz! Extract the images using tar.

Importing Kicksecure VM Template[edit]

The supplied XML files serve as a description for libvirt and define the properties of a Kicksecure VM and the networking it should have.

1. Kicksecure works with the network named default out of the box.

2. Import the Kicksecure image.

virsh -c qemu:///system define Kicksecure*.xml

Moving the Kicksecure Image File[edit]

The XML files are configured to point to the default storage location of /var/lib/libvirt/images. The following steps move the images there so the machines can boot.

Note: Changing the default location may cause conflicts with SELinux, which will prevent the machines from booting.

It is recommended to move the image file instead of copying it.

sudo mv Kicksecure*.qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/Kicksecure.qcow2

Shared Folders[edit]

See KVM, Shared_FoldersOnion network Logo.

Footnotes[edit]

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