qubes-mirage-firewall

A unikernel that can run as a QubesOS ProxyVM, replacing sys-firewall. It uses the mirage-qubes library to implement the Qubes protocols.

Note: This firewall ignores the rules set in the Qubes GUI. See rules.ml for the actual policy.

See A Unikernel Firewall for QubesOS for more details.

Build (with Docker)

Clone this Git repository and run the build-with-docker.sh script:

sudo yum install docker
sudo systemctl start docker
git clone https://github.com/talex5/qubes-mirage-firewall.git
cd qubes-mirage-firewall
sudo ./build-with-docker.sh

This took about 10 minutes on my laptop (it will be much quicker if you run it again).

Build (without Docker)

1. Install build tools:

    sudo yum install git gcc m4 0install patch ncurses-devel tar bzip2 unzip make which findutils xen-devel
    mkdir ~/bin
    0install add opam http://tools.ocaml.org/opam.xml
    opam init --comp=4.04.0
    eval `opam config env`
   

2. Install mirage, pinning a few unreleased features we need:

    opam pin add -n -y tcpip.3.0.0 'https://github.com/talex5/mirage-tcpip.git#fix-length-checks'
    opam pin add -y mirage-nat 'https://github.com/talex5/mirage-nat.git#lru'
    opam install mirage
   

3. Build mirage-firewall:

    git clone https://github.com/talex5/qubes-mirage-firewall.git
    cd qubes-mirage-firewall
    mirage configure --xen
    make
   

Deploy

If you want to deploy manually, use make tar to create mirage-firewall.tar.bz2 and unpack this in dom0, inside /var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/. e.g. (if dev is the AppVM where you built it):

    [tal@dom0 ~]$ cd /var/lib/qubes/vm-kernels/
    [tal@dom0 vm-kernels]$ qvm-run -p dev 'cat qubes-mirage-firewall/mirage-firewall.tar.bz2' | tar xjf -

The tarball contains vmlinuz, which is the unikernel itself, plus a couple of dummy files that Qubes requires.

For development, use the test-mirage scripts to deploy the unikernel (mir-qubes-firewall.xen) from your development AppVM. e.g.

$ test-mirage mir-firewall.xen mirage-firewall
Waiting for 'Ready'... OK
Uploading 'mir-qubes-firewall.xen' (4843304 bytes) to "mirage-firewall"
Waiting for 'Booting'... OK
--> Loading the VM (type = ProxyVM)...
--> Starting Qubes DB...
--> Setting Qubes DB info for the VM...
--> Updating firewall rules...
--> Starting the VM...
--> Starting the qrexec daemon...
Waiting for VM's qrexec agent.connected
--> Starting Qubes GUId...
Connecting to VM's GUI agent: .connected
--> Sending monitor layout...
--> Waiting for qubes-session...
Connecting to mirage-firewall console...
MirageOS booting...
Initialising timer interface
Initialising console ... done.
Netif: add resume hook
gnttab_stubs.c: initialised mini-os gntmap
2015-12-30 10:04.42: INF [qubes.rexec] waiting for client...
2015-12-30 10:04.42: INF [qubes.gui] waiting for client...
2015-12-30 10:04.42: INF [qubes.db] connecting to server...
2015-12-30 10:04.42: INF [qubes.db] connected
2015-12-30 10:04.42: INF [qubes.rexec] client connected, using protocol version 2
2015-12-30 10:04.42: INF [qubes.db] got update: "/qubes-keyboard" = "xkb_keymap {\n\txkb_keycodes  { include \"evdev+aliases(qwerty)\"\t};\n\txkb_types     { include \"complete\"\t};\n\txkb_compat    { include \"complete\"\t};\n\txkb_symbols   { include \"pc+gb+inet(evdev)\"\t};\n\txkb_geometry  { include \"pc(pc104)\"\t};\n};"
2015-12-30 10:04.42: INF [qubes.gui] client connected (screen size: 6720x2160)
2015-12-30 10:04.42: INF [unikernel] agents connected in 0.052 s (CPU time used since boot: 0.007 s)
Netif.connect 0
Netfront.create: id=0 domid=1
 sg:true gso_tcpv4:true rx_copy:true rx_flip:false smart_poll:false
MAC: 00:16:3e:5e:6c:0b
ARP: sending gratuitous from 10.137.1.13
2015-12-30 10:04.42: INF [application] Client (internal) network is 10.137.3.0/24
ARP: transmitting probe -> 10.137.1.1
2015-12-30 10:04.42: INF [net] Watching backend/vif
2015-12-30 10:04.42: INF [qubes.rexec] Execute "user:QUBESRPC qubes.SetMonitorLayout dom0\000"
2015-12-30 10:04.42: WRN [command] << Unknown command "QUBESRPC qubes.SetMonitorLayout dom0"
2015-12-30 10:04.42: INF [qubes.rexec] Execute "root:QUBESRPC qubes.WaitForSession none\000"
2015-12-30 10:04.42: WRN [command] << Unknown command "QUBESRPC qubes.WaitForSession none"
2015-12-30 10:04.42: INF [qubes.db] got update: "/qubes-netvm-domid" = "1"
ARP: retrying 10.137.1.1 (n=1)
ARP: transmitting probe -> 10.137.1.1
ARP: updating 10.137.1.1 -> fe:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

LICENSE

Copyright (c) 2015, Thomas Leonard All rights reserved.

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