qubes-doc/SystemDoc.md

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System Documentation for Developers
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-   Qubes OS Architecture v0.3 [​(pdf)](http://www.qubes-os.org/files/doc/arch-spec-0.3.pdf)

-   [Security-critical elements of Qubes OS](/wiki/Trusted_parts)

-   [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/Dom0SecureUpdate%3A)

Build instructions:

-   Building Qubes core and gui packages: see this [​message](https://groups.google.com/group/qubes-devel/browse_thread/thread/710f725713cc7e8a#)

-   [KDE Dom0 packages for Qubes](/wiki/KdeDom0)

-   [How to build Qubes installation ISO](/wiki/InstallationIsoBuilding)