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qubes-issues

The Qubes OS Project issue tracker

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Observed mentions: 2016-09-29 12:38:14 UTC to 2026-09-13 21:28:48 UTC.

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20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC606
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC11011
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC707
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What Hacker News says

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fsflover·Mar 8, 2021
> I would rather see the dom0 running NixOS than ancient Fedora. https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/1919 > The only thing I have never got to work, at all, is clipboard operations between VMs. It announces it's doing something with various clipboards, but nothing apparent ever happens. This sounds very strange, has been working flawlessly for me since forever. Perhaps you could fill a bug or ask at Qubes forums: https://qubes-os.discourse.group.
In Qubes-Lite with KVM and Wayland
minimalist·Mar 7, 2021
This is an amazing effort, very cool! I'm not sure why the author is having so much pain with Qubes. Indeed the lack of GPU in guest VMs is annoying but it is possible now to assign a GPU to a HVM fairly reliably thanks to all of the VFIO/gaming-on-linux enthusiasm in the past years. Otherwise, I also find that running browsers in multiple VMs on laptop is a problem if you don't disable JS by default because modern websites have become so bloated, it's a tragedy. The LVM remark is also strange. It's very reliable for plenty of people, but there is the risk of running out of space for metadata [0]. Thin-pools for VM storage allows for some great Time-Machine-esque incremental backups also [1]. But for managing multiple development environments, Qubes is a blessing, not even including all the security benefits. Another option for Xen fans i
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s XCP-ng + a thin client machine for accessing the VMs. One can also use firejail+Xephyr to achieve graphical isolation [2] (not sure about Wayland). It looks like architecture changes in Qubes future [3] may make KVM a reality. This is still a very cool effort, I'll have to give the Wayland bits a close read. [0]: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/3243, https://listman.redhat.com/archives/linux-lvm/2018-July/msg0... [1]: https://github.com/tasket/wyng-backup [2]: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/User:Sakaki/Sakaki's_EFI_Instal... [3]: https://www.qubes-os.org/news/2020/03/18/gui-domain/
In Qubes-Lite with KVM and Wayland
fsflover·Jan 6, 2021
This is not so simple. Qubes implements security through isolation. Dom0 has not Internet access, so you can only have a backdoor in VMs. Some VMs also have no Internet access, so they're safe. Others are reset every reboot. In addition, all VMs can rely on different Linux distributions (Arch, Debian, Fedora etc.). I think Qubes provides a good defense against such attacks. Upd: > I've never heard of Qubes doing significant in-distro kernel hardening https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/4233 https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2748 https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-issues/issues/2045
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