The template only weighs about 300 MB and has only the most vital packages installed, including a minimal X and xterm installation. It is not thought to be usable in its original form.
The minimal template, however, can be easily extended to fit your requirements. The sections below contain the instructions on duplicating the template and provide some examples for commonly desired use cases.
It is higly recommended to clone the original template, and make any changes in the clone instead of the original template. The following command clones the template. Replace "your-new-clone" with your desired name.
As expected, the required packages are to be installed in the running template with the following command. Replace "packages" with the list of packages to be installed, separated by space.
**Standard utilities** | If you need the commonly used utilities | Install the following packages: `pciutils``vim-minimal``less``psmisc``gnome-keyring`
**Firewall VM** | You can use the minimal template as a firewall VM, such as the basis template for `sys-firewall` | No extra packages are needed for the template to work as a firewall.
**Network VM** | You can use this template as the basis for a NetVM such as `sys-net` | Install the following packages: `NetworkManager``NetworkManager-wifi``network-manager-applet``wireless-tools``dbus-x11 dejavu-sans-fonts``tinyproxy`.
**Network VM (extra firmware)** | If your network devices need extra packages for the template to work as a network VM | Use the `lspci` command to identify the devices, then run `dnf search firmware` (replace "firmware" with the appropriate device identifier) to find the needed packages and then install them.
**Network utilities** | If you need utilities for debugging and analyzing network connections | Install the following packages: `tcpdump``telnet``nmap``nmap-ncat`
**USB VM** | If you want USB input forwarding to use this template as the basis for a USBVM such as `sys-usb` | Install `qubes-input-proxy-sender`
**VPN VM** | You can use this template as basis for a VPN machine | Use the `dnf search "NetworkManager VPN plugin"` command to look up the VPN packages you need, based on the VPN technology you'll be using, and install them. Some GNOME related packages may be needed as well. After creation of a machine based on this template, follow the [VPN howto](/doc/vpn/#set-up-a-proxyvm-as-a-vpn-gateway-using-networkmanager) to configure it.
**TOR** | If you want to provide torified networking to other clients | As described in [the TorVM page](/doc/torvm/), the recommendation is to use [the standard Whonix image](/doc/whonix/) for this use case.