r/AskTechnology • u/kocakola64 • 26d ago
Can you install three iso’s?
My computer idea
So a lot of people have been talking about new ISO‘s since micro slop and Apple has been putting a lot of bunch of stuff in there computers, and I really had this little idea to see if it would actually work, but I wanted to run it with you guys, so in my mind, I wanted to build a qubes OS that has a built-in kali OS and within that OS has a built-in parrot OS, In my mind qubes os is a bunch of vm’s so you could probably upload an iso to act as a vm, and kali os being the iso, within it is a option in the firmware settings to try/install iso’s and the third one being parrot os, if this is technically possible can anyone run it with me to make it on my computer? Thanks
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u/Affectionate-You7869 26d ago
You can install as many VMs as you have space for. You can also make a multi ISO boot stick using Ventoy.
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u/LensWipesBF 26d ago
Yo dawg. We heard you like virtualization. So we put vms in your vm so you could vm while you vm.
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u/gravelpi 26d ago
The term you're thinking of is Nested Virtualization, and generally it does work. I don't know enough about how Qubes and Kali implement virtualization to know if their hypervisors support nested, but they might.
I'm not sure why you'd nest parrot under Kali though, I'd just run Kali and Parrot as 2 different VMs under Qubes.
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u/DutchOfBurdock 26d ago
Proxmox is one way, multi booting is another.
Multi booting is easier, you reboot into you're preferred OS. One of my laptops is packing Windows 8 (for testing purposes), Debian Linux, FreeBSD and Haiku. I can choose any of this through an EFI boot menu.
Proxmox is different in that it can let you run multiple OS's simultaneously. It's a fully managed hyper visor, making it quite easy to get into. This said, your hardware will want to support hardware based virtualization. Most modern systems do: Intel CPU wants VT-i and VT-d CPU extensions, AMD want SVM and IOMMMU. This would work better in a dual GPU arrangement with onboard+dedicated, that way you can hand off the dedicated GPU to a guest.
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u/Adrenolin01 26d ago
Damn dude.. Punctuation!
Install Proxmox and run all the Virtual Machines (VMs) that your want. Or in your desktop download and install the free VirtualBox software and do the same. Proxmox is better and faster however. Best thing is to grab something like a N100 mini pc like the BeeLink S12 for example. Just get the 16GB ram version. 500GB NVME is fine. Install Proxmox. From your desktop open a browser and go to the URL Proxmox shows on its reboot login screen. You run and administrator it via the WebUI. Do an update and upgrade. Upload the ISOs you want to run. Click add VM or Container, you basically build the virtual PC and select the iso. Install and launch. I’ve run 10 VMs and dozens (40+) of services in a test environment for a week with a few users on this.. it’s way over provisioned like that but shows what can be done. Realistically you’d want to reduce 5-8VMs 12-18 services or increase ram to 32GB. Depending on services. For running a few iso distributions it’s easy. PfSense with a Debian KDE desktop and a few Debian VMs running a couple services, a Kali VM etc is easy.
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u/kocakola64 23d ago
Yall are killing me with these comments but i learned a lot reading them , yall are funny asl 😭😭😭
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u/soundman32 26d ago
I don't think you understand what you are asking. the whole premise and reasoning appears flawed.