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Unable to install VirtualBox Guest Additions on Tails OS

You should run 'VBoxLinuxAdditions.run' file, not the autorun.sh. Syntax: bash VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
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I am interested in using tor on a Arm based processor laptop is there a way to do this?

Tor should work fine on ARM CPUs. On distributions like Debian there are Tor versions for arm, arm64, armel, armhf (even mips, mipsel and powerpc). The Tor Project themselves also distribute debian ...
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Installing virtualbox in tails

I would strongly recommend against this. Infact other software that requires dkms modules is explicitly recommended against by the Tails developers. It is not officially supported by them. Inserting ...
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SSH from host into virtual machine over tor

You need Tor's DNS port on the Leader to be in /etc/resolv.conf as a primary one, so dot-onion hostname for Follower will be resolvable into Tor's virtual network mapped. Your problem starts when the ...
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Can't stream audio over Tor

It was apparently a bug with VLC, which writes Content-Type: application/octet-stream in the response regardless of the file type. It worked fine on Chrome because (in contrast with Tor) it has some ...
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Does Firefox in VM have a common enough fingerprint so I don't need tor browser?

There are several online tools that allow you to test the fingerprint of Tor Browser and other browsers. For example, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's panopticlick.eff.org. Using these tools, it ...
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what is the recommended OS for accessing dark web through tor to maintain anonymity also using virtual machine?

will it affect my anonymity if I use that OS through virtual machine in windows? yes it can! if the host OS is compromised it may be completely pointless what OS you are using in the VM. also ...
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what is the recommended OS for accessing dark web through tor to maintain anonymity also using virtual machine?

You must first evaluate your threat model. If you are browsing Tor for fun, Windows is fine. If you are browsing Tor to do something illegal in your area of the world, then you would need to take more ...
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what is the recommended OS for accessing dark web through tor to maintain anonymity also using virtual machine?

my preference is FreeBSD, but if you have ARM SBC like Raspberry Pi - you can use Linux with a last kernel compiled from source - NOT a dpkg/rpm/apt/yum provided one! If you can tell me more about the ...
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typical way to run tails virtualized on ubuntu?

Generally the virtualisation of choice is VirtualBox, see: Tails VirtualBox documentation However, also heed the warnings. Tails do not recommend using VirtualBox for day-to-day use. It's there ...
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Mac address of Tails in VirtualBox

The host machine has a mac and the virtual machine also has a mac (not related to host machine's mac), tails spoofs the mac on the virtual machine - not the host machine. This means : Host machine's ...
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Mac address of Tails in VirtualBox

It's easier to explain using this scheme: I may be wrong, I'm not a very active Tails user.
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Should I run multiple tor relay vms on one machine?

If you will be able to put them in different C-class subnets on a static IPv4 addresses - then run as much as you need. Actually, you can set the cpu count to 2, it's ok because the crypto part in Tor ...
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I am interested in using tor on a Arm based processor laptop is there a way to do this?

Tor works pretty fine on ARM - I'm running my nodes on ARM SBC's myself. You need to compile it by hand and OpenSSL and Libevent to avoid perfomance loss. If you need specific instructions - just say ...
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