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<a href="../index.html">Previous Page</a></br></br><p><img src="../../assets/img/user.png" width="50px" height="50px"> <ba>nihilist@mainpc - 2024-06-14</ba></p>
<h1>Tails OS QEMU VM for Temporary Anonymity </h1>
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<p>In this tutorial we're going to look at how you can run Tails OS (The Amnesic Incognito Linux System) in a QEMU VM, following the official documentation <a href="https://tails.net/doc/advanced_topics/virtualization/virt-manager/index.en.html">here</a>. </p>
<p><h2><u>OPSEC Recommendations:</u></h2></p>
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<li><p>Hardware : (Personal Computer / Laptop)</p></li>
<li><p>Host OS: <a href="../linux/index.html">Linux</a></p></li>
<li><p>Hypervisor: <a href="../hypervisorsetup/index.html">libvirtd QEMU/KVM</a></p></li>
<li><p>Application: <a href="../index.html">Host-based VPN</a> (if your ISP doesn't allow Tor traffic) </p></li>
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<p>I recommend using this setup into one of the above mentionned VMs, for <a href="../anonymityexplained/index.html">Anonymous use</a>, as per the <a href="../opsec4levels/index.html">4 basic OPSEC levels</a>.</p>
<p><u>Sidenote:</u> If your ISP does not allow Tor traffic, make sure that you <a href="../vpnqemu/index.html">route the QEMU VMs traffic through a VPN</a>, to hide the tor traffic from your ISP (You -> VPN -> Tor) Setup</p>
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<h2><b>Tails Setup </b></h2>
<p>First we download Tails OS as a USB image <a href="https://tails.net/install/download/index.en.html">here</a>:</p>
<img src="1.png" class="imgRz">
<p>Then we resize the image size to be able to contain persistent storage (in this case, i'll make it 8Gbs):</p>
<pre><code class="nim">
[ nowhere ] [ /dev/pts/8 ] [nihilist/VAULT/Isos]
→ ls tails-amd64-6.3.img -lash
1.4G -rw-r--r-- 1 nihilist nihilist 1.4G Jun 14 10:15 tails-amd64-6.3.img
[ nowhere ] [ /dev/pts/8 ] [nihilist/VAULT/Isos]
→ truncate -s 8192M tails-amd64-6.3.img
</code></pre>
<p>And now we can create the VM in virt-manager like so:</p>
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<p>Then press enter to launch tails:</p>
<img src="8.png" class="imgRz">
<p>(wait a few seconds for it to load)</p>
<img src="9.png" class="imgRz">
<p>Once in there, depending on your use, you can select to have an admin password and a persistent storage if you need it. Otherwise everything you do in the VM will be wiped clean upon shutdown (hence the word amnesic).</p>
<img src="10.png" class="imgRz">
<p>Then we select connect to tor automatically:</p>
<img src="11.png" class="imgRz">
<p>And here we click start the Tor browser to browse the web anonymously, and if you're curious and want to see the tor Circuits you can view them also:</p>
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<h2><b>Persistent Storage Setup</b></h2> </br> </br>
<p>Next, if you want to enable the persistent storage go there:</p>
<img src="13.png" class="imgRz">
<p>make sure you enter a strong password that can't be bruteforced easily:</p>
<img src="14.png" class="imgRz">
<p>then hit "create persistent storage" and wait a bit for the operation to complete:</p>
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<p>Then adjust the settings as per your liking, if you want the persistent storage to store more than it does by default:</p>
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<img src="17.png" class="imgRz">
<p>Then if you want to install additional software you can launch a terminal:</p>
<img src="18.png" class="imgRz">
<p>Then from there you can use sudo because you enabled the administrator password, and install software:</p>
<pre><code class="nim">
amnesia@amnesia:~$ sudo apt update -y ; sudo apt install neofetch -y
[sudo] password for amnesia:
Get:1 tor+https://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian bookworm InRelease [151 kB]
Get:2 tor+http://apow7mjfryruh65chtdydfmqfpj5btws7nbocgtaovhvezgccyjazpqd.onion/torproject.org bookworm InRelease [3,526 B]
Get:3 tor+https://cdn-fastly.deb.debian.org/debian-security bookworm-security InRelease [48.0 kB]
[...]
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<p>Then once the software installed, you have the possibility to store it in the persistent storage as well, so that it can be available when you launch tails again:</p>
<img src="19.png" class="imgRz">
<pre><code class="nim">
amnesia@amnesia:~$ neofetch
`` amnesia@amnesia
./yhNh ---------------
syy/Nshh `:o/ OS: Tails x86_64
N:dsNshh \u2588 `ohNMMd Host: KVM/QEMU (Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009) pc-q35-9.0)
N-/+Nshh `yMMMMd Kernel: 6.1.0-21-amd64
N-yhMshh yMMMMd Uptime: 13 mins
N-s:hshh \u2588 yMMMMd so//. Packages: 1854 (dpkg)
N-oyNsyh yMMMMd d Mms. Shell: bash 5.2.15
N:hohhhd:. yMMMMd syMMM+ Resolution: 1280x800
Nsyh+-..+y+- yMMMMd :mMM+ DE: GNOME 43.9
+hy- -ss/`yMMMM `+d+ WM: Mutter
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.+ys- `:+hNMMMMMMy/` Theme: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
`hNmmMMMMMMMMMMMMdo. Icons: Adwaita [GTK2/3]
dMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMNh: Terminal: gnome-terminal
+hMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmy. CPU: 11th Gen Intel i7-11700K (2) @ 3.600GHz
-oNMMMMMMMMMMmy+.` GPU: 00:01.0 Red Hat, Inc. Virtio 1.0 GPU
`:yNMMMds/.` Memory: 1313MiB / 3915MiB
.//`
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<p>And that's it! We managed to run tails OS from a QEMU VM and install some software into the persistent storage.</p>
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