Here are some notes on how to use Qubes OS coming from Debian
First login
- At your choice: select XFCE as GUI and login. (It's also possible to skip installing KDE and just install XFCE.)
update the system:
sudo qubes-dom0-update
display kernel version : uname -r
Making the disposable VM default to Debian
qvm-create-default-dvm debian-8
using qubes os
updating the menu after adding applications to a VM
qvm-sync-appmenus <vm-name>
Removing unused templates
yum erase qubes-template-fedora[nnnn]
(get a list with a grep on yum list installed)
Please note that this will unregister the template from Qubes and remove the files.
VM networking
Each VM's internal IP address is generated from that VM's QID (a unique identifying number assigned to each VM upon creation). To see this, run (in dom0):
qvm-ls --network --ids
Cloning a template
qvm-clone debian-8 debian-9
Taking screenshots
from Qubes 3.1 onwards one can use:
- hit the prtscn button
qvm-move-to-vm targevtmtogetthescreenshot /path/to/screenshot.png
Cheatsheet
usefull tricks
using awesome window manager for dom0
install the package with sudo qubes-dom0-update awesome
git clone https://github.com/woju/qubes-desktop-linux-awesome
git clone https://github.com/woju/awesome-shifty
- adopt rc.lua somehow…
converting PDFs
- either use "convert pdf" via the context menu in nautilus
or us qvm-convert-pdf from shell
Specific to Debian
You can upgrade the debian-8 to debian-9
* If you succeed, why not try to clone the debian-9 template into a sid template and then upgrade that from debian-9 to sid ?
Improving the Debian templates
some packages are not yet coming from Debian but from /etc/apt/sources.list.d/qubes-r3.list, so probably those should be uploaded to sid…
- to be done: make a list, go through it one by one, file an ITP and upload to sid. h01ger is happy to help here.
Base SystemVMs on Debian templates
qvm-prefs -s sys-net template debian-8 qvm-prefs -s sys-firewall template debian-8
In theory one now only needs to restart these VMs and that's it.
- However, that resulting in neither the wireless nor the firewall working, thus I'm not running this yet.
other informations
Obsolete informations (Might still be useful in future again…)
"To be continued…"