Whonix via flatpak?

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Hello, I’m in a highly censored and restricted area with a high threat model and I really require Whonix. In the process of doing some research before installing it I concluded that Whonix on top of Secureblue is the safest setup. However, in the meantime, I’m running Fedora KDE (atomic) as my main setup and I’m wondering if I can run Whonix as safely and privately as possible within KVM? Do I need to run it, again, via flatpak? Or do I have to do some modification in order to make it work? I tried layering the virtualization before but ran into a series of errors which I couldn’t resolve on my own so I winded up removing it altogether.

I’d be appreciative if someone could guide me on what’s the best measure, and help me run it from scratch! Thanks in advance

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Have you tried using GNOME Boxes? It’s officially available in Flathub: https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.Boxes

I haven’t tried using it on KDE, but worth a shot.

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Install on a USB is easy.

If you are in a ‘high threat model’ the chances are you cannot win.
Judging by your advanced and colloquial English skills, I would guess you are in UK, USA or Australia. They all have exceptional technology,

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The problem is that afaik whonix doesnt really support libvirt/kvm/qemu for whatever reason

Have you tried oniux? Do you really need Whonix, or just a tor router for anything?

On atomic desktops I would install it by installing cargo and then oniux

cargo install --git https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/oniux

Oniux has no isolation between router and client, but uses arti which can be assumed more secure than tor due to memory safety