However, such updates may be provided by the template maintainer. By installing these templates, you are trusting not only the Qubes developers and the distribution maintainers, but also the template maintainer.
In addition, these templates may be somewhat less stable, since the Qubes developers do not test them. Certain templates come preinstalled with Qubes OS. However, there may be times when you wish to install a fresh template from the Qubes repositories, e. Usually, the installation method is to execute the following type of command in dom Advanced users can install a minimal version of the template, if one exists, by appending -minimal directly to the end of the template package name.
If you wish to install a template that is in testing, please see here. If you want to remove a template you must make sure that it is not being used. You should check that the template is not being used by any qubes, and also that it is not set as the default template.
If the template was originaly created by cloning another template, then you can delete it the same way as you would any other qube.
In the Qube Manager, right-click on the template and select Delete qube. If, on the other hand, the template came pre-installed or was installed by installing a template package in dom0, per the instructions above , then you must execute the following type of command in dom0 in order to uninstall it:.
These are normal and expected. Nothing is wrong, and no action is required to address these warnings. In other cases, please see VM Troubleshooting. When you install a new template or upgrade a clone of a template, it is recommended that you switch everything that was set to the old template to the new template:. If your keyboard or mouse is connected through sys-usb , switch sys-usb to the new template.
Note that this is a single command to ensure that sys-usb restarts. However, it should be noted that even now, the fact that those drivers are not digitally signed, this doesn't affect security of the Windows VM in 'any' way. The only downside of those drivers not being signed is the inconvenience to the user that he or she must disable the signature enforcement policy before installing the tools.
After successful installation, the Windows VM must be shut down and started again, possibly a couple of times. This can be verified but is not required using qvm-prefs command:. During one of the first reboots after Windows Tools installation Windows user profiles are moved onto the private VM's virtual disk private. Moving profiles is performed in an early boot phase when qrexec is not yet running, so timeout may occur with the default value.
To change the property use this command in dom There are two ways of installing the drivers:. Caution: Installing the version 9. The drivers install without error, but after reboot, the system aborts the reboot saying Missing driver xenbus. With Qubes Windows Tools installed the early graphical console provided in debugging mode isn't needed anymore since Qubes' display driver will be used instead of the default VGA driver:. Once you start a Windows-based AppVM with Qubes Tools installed, you can easily start individual applications from the VM note the -a switch used here, which will auto-start the VM if it is not running :.
Also, the inter-VM services work as usual -- e. The latter is the default. This 2nd disk is backed by the private. It's a selectable feature of the installer, enabled by default, but working only for Windows 7.
If that feature is selected during installation, completion of the process requires two reboots:. For Windows 10, the user directories have to be moved manually, because the automatic transfer during QWT installation is bound to crash due to undocumented new features of NTFS, and a system having the directory users on another disk than C: will break on Windows update.
So the following steps should be taken:. Moving the hidden application directories AppData , however, is likely to invite trouble - the same trouble that occurs if, during QWT installation, the option Move user profiles is selected. Configuration data like those stored in directories like AppData still remain in the TemplateVM, such that their changes are lost each time the AppVM shuts down. In order to make permanent changes to these configuration data, they have to be changed in the TemplateVM, meaning that applications have to be started there, which violates and perhaps even endangers the security of the TemplateVM.
Such changes should be done only if absolutely necessary and with great care. It is a good idea to test them first in a cloned TemplateVM before applying them in the production VM. Instead, we use Xen shared memory, which eliminates a lot of processing of untrusted data.
For example, the receiving qube is not forced to parse untrusted partitions or file systems. In this respect, the inter-qube file copy system provides even more security than file copy between two physically separated air-gapped machines! See Software compartmentalization vs. However, one should keep in mind that performing a data transfer from less trusted to more trusted qubes is always potentially insecure if the data will be parsed in the target qube.
This is because the data that we copy could try to exploit some hypothetical bug in software running in the target qube. User Reviews Filter Reviews: All. My favourite desktop distro currently. This project is quite interesting and keep coming with new great features on every new version launched. I feel confident when using Qubes than anything else. It's better if in the next version 4.
It's being picky and only run nicely on the system that is compatible with it. Make sure to check 'Hardware Compatible List' before you decide to install. Excellent way to protect your main PC and its data. Qubes tries to marry strong security to a good user experience, and I think its succeeding.
Its hardened system of interfacing hardware and virtual machines is brilliant and its UI constanly informs you about the security context of what's on screen.
Qubes can even defend against BadUSB. The main issue with Qubes is you have to be choosy about the computers you install it on see the Qubes HCL page at their website.
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