qubes-doc/SystemDoc.md

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System Documentation for Developers
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-   Qubes OS Architecture v0.3 [​(pdf)](http://files.qubes-os.org/files/doc/arch-spec-0.3.pdf) (A bit outdated, but it was the original document that started this all...)
-   [Security-critical elements of Qubes OS](/wiki/SecurityCriticalCode)
-   [Qubes GUI virtualization protocol](/wiki/GUIdocs)
-   [Networking in Qubes](/wiki/QubesNet)
-   [Inter-domain file coping](/wiki/Qfilecopy)
-   [Command execution in VM (and Qubes RPC)](/wiki/Qrexec)
-   [Dynamic memory management in Qubes](/wiki/Qmemman)
-   [Implementation of DisposableVMs](/wiki/DVMimpl)
-   [​Article about disposable VMs](http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2010/06/disposable-vms.html)
-   [Implementation of template sharing and updating](/wiki/TemplateImplementation)
-   [Dom0 secure update mechanism](/wiki/Dom0SecureUpdates)
-   [VM secure update mechanism?](/wiki/VMSecureUpdates)

Build instructions:

-   [Building Qubes](/wiki/QubesBuilder)
-   [Development Workflow](/wiki/DevelopmentWorkflow)
-   [KDE Dom0 packages for Qubes](/wiki/KdeDom0)
-   [How to build Qubes installation ISO](/wiki/InstallationIsoBuilding)
-   [Building USB passthrough support (experimental)](/wiki/USBVM)