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Introduction
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We have faced several challenges when making this Live USB edition of Qubes OS,
which traditional Linux distros don't have to bother with:
When making this Live USB edition of Qubes OS, we faced several challenges which
traditional Linux distros don't have to bother with:
1. We needed to ensure Xen is properly started when booting the stick. In fact
we still don't support UEFI boot for the stick for this reason, even though
@ -39,20 +39,20 @@ few tens of MBs per VM, sometimes even more. Also, each VM's private
image, which essentially holds just the user home directory, typically starts
with a few tens of MBs for an "empty VM". Now, while these represent rather
insignificant numbers on a disk-basked system, in the case of a live USB all
these files must be stored in RAM, which is a scare resource on any OS, but
these files must be stored in RAM, which is a scarce resource on any OS, but
especially on Qubes.
We have implemented some quick optimizations in order to minimize the above
problem, but this is still far from a proper solution. We're planning to work
more on this next.
Now, there are three directions in how we want to work further on this Qubes
There are three directions in which we want to do further work on this Qubes
Live USB variant:
1. Introduce an easy, clickable "install to disk" option, merging this with the
Qubes installation ISO. So, e.g. make it possible to first see if the given
hardware is compatible with Qubes (run the HCL reporting tool) and only then
install on the main disk. Also, ensure UEFI boot works well.
hardware is compatible with Qubes (by running the HCL reporting tool) and
only then install on the main disk. Also, ensure UEFI boot works well.
2. Introduce options for persistence while still running this out of a USB
stick. This would be achieved by allowing (select) VMs' private images to be
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Current limitations
-------------------
(Remember that Qubes Live USB is currently in alpha, so please meter your
(Remember that Qubes Live USB is currently in alpha, so please meter your
expectations accordingly.)
1. Currently just the 3 example VMs (untrusted, personal, work), plus the
@ -90,10 +90,10 @@ expectations accordingly.)
from a large Qubes backup blob.
5. It's easy to generate Out Of Memory (OOM) in Dom0 by creating lots of VMs
which are writing a lot into the VMs filesystem.
6. There is no DispVM savefile, so if one starts one the savefile must be
regenerated which takes about 1-2 minutes.
7. UEFI boot doesn't work, and if you try booting it via UEFI Xen will not be
started, rendering the whole experiment unusable.
6. There is no DispVM savefile, so if you start a DispVM the savefile must be
regenerated, which takes about 1-2 minutes.
7. UEFI boot doesn't work, and if you try booting Qubes Live USB via UEFI, Xen
will not be started, rendering the whole experiment unusable.
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