Librem 5 Qubes?

[OpojOJirYAlG]

Continuing the discussion from Librem 5 media (photos and videos):

@weirdnerd as your question is unrelated to the thread you asked it in, consider this thread a gift for such a discussion.

Realistically qubes is built around the x86 ecosystem and I don’t see it being ported to arm anytime soon, but in the event it were ported I could see Purism offering it as an option.

[wednesday]

Or get in contact with some developers and pay the arm port from your own pocket

[weirdnerd]

@OpojOJirYAlG

consider this thread a gift for such a discussion.

Looks like Christmas came early this year.

@wednesday

Or get in contact with some developers and pay the arm port from your own pocket

@OpojOJirYAlG

Realistically qubes is built around the x86 ecosystem

Qubes is based on Xen, and it looks like Xen already functions on ARM architecture.

From the Xen wiki, https://wiki.xenproject.org/wiki/Xen_ARM_with_Virtualization_Extensions_whitepaper

Assuming that you already have a functional Dom0 kernel (usually Linux) for your SoC, porting Xen to it is a very simple task.

So maybe Qubes wouldn’t be so difficult?

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@weirdnerd

Qubes as an option for L5

See the FAQ: https://puri.sm/faq/

It will not run on Librem smartphones — Qubes OS requires virtualization on the CPU and there is no port for ARM architectures.

Also, 3 GB is too little for Qubes. 16 GB was not enough for me, upgraded to 32 now.

[fsflover]

Qubes-lite With KVM and Wayland

There is a discussion on Hacker News

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I suppose a slightly obvious preliminary question to ask in relation to this is: Do the CPU cores in the Librem 5 actually have any virtualisation features?

This seems like something that would probably not be too difficult to answer by digging through datasheets, but I won’t be the one to put in the work.