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Qubes-Whonix-Workstation DispVM Support
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TODO abstract:

Make sure Qubes-Whonix-Workstation can be used as DispVM.

TODO specific:

whonixcheck is already working in a Qubes-Whonix-Workstation DispVM in the Whonix 13 development version. Apparently the Qubes upstream issue home folder of template not inherited by DispVM is the only thing preventing this.

History:

Thanks to the help of @marmarek two issues preventing this were already fixed.

Related:

  • no longer write to home folder directly; use /etc/skel:T419
  • up to date versions of Tor Browsers in newly created AppVMs inherited from updated TemplateVMs: T417

user documentation stub:
https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Qubes/Disposable_VM

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Patrick created this task.Jan 6 2016, 11:41 PM
Patrick raised the priority of this task from to Normal.
Patrick updated the task description. (Show Details)
Patrick added projects: Qubes, Whonix 13.
Patrick set Impact to Normal.
Patrick added subscribers: Patrick, marmarek, nrgaway, mfc.
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Patrick added a comment.Jan 7 2016, 10:39 PM
separate done file for Qubes TemplateVMs to make this work with the
current home folder population for Qubes DispVMs.
https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-agent-linux/blob/f380c346cf9af3f058b8ece853d7d4a5ece28815/misc/dispvm-prerun.sh#L6-L12

https://phabricator.whonix.org/T419
https://phabricator.whonix.org/T463

https://github.com/Whonix/whonix-base-files/commit/9ade708ed7288a1fec4a662b2bf062a8ebffc15c

Patrick changed the task status from Open to Review.Jan 7 2016, 10:47 PM
Patrick updated the task description. (Show Details)
Patrick added a comment.May 5 2016, 2:47 AM

Qubes-Whonix-Workstation DispVM Support is done on Whonix VM level, but not on Qubes dom0 level.

echo konsole | /usr/lib/qubes/qfile-daemon-dvm qubes.VMShell dom0 DEFAULT red and then running whonixcheck or torbrowser works.

Qubes bug qvm-open-in-vm opens URLs in non-default browser is an issue, because links are opened in iceweasel rather than Tor Browser.

Not having Whonix default VM settings fixes - salt management (3) is an even more serious issue.

Patrick removed a project: Whonix 13.May 17 2016, 7:21 PM

The above is not something I can solve for Whonix 13. Therefore removing Whonix 13 milestone.

marmarek added a comment.Sep 14 2017, 12:24 AM

qubes-devel discussion: https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-devel/0f80b2a7-af84-fe3c-db9b-5d9bbeedfea6%40riseup.net

marmarek added a comment.Sep 14 2017, 12:36 AM

https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-mgmt-salt-dom0-virtual-machines/pull/5

Patrick closed this task as Resolved.Feb 18 2019, 8:39 AM
Patrick claimed this task.

Looks like nothing more to do here.

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