Qubes For Server

[moncojhr]

Hi,

I am wondering if you have any plans for qubes targeting server usage.

Basically qubes without any gui, then you could have multiple vm's for
the seperate services, for instance apache in one, jabber in another.
You'd also benefit from the netvm and the other separation that occurs
in qubes.

Cheers,
monco

[Joanna Rutkowska]

On 01/06/11 05:02, moncojhr wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am wondering if you have any plans for qubes targeting server usage.
>

No, there is no point (see below).

> Basically qubes without any gui, then you could have multiple vm's for
> the seperate services, for instance apache in one, jabber in another.
> You'd also benefit from the netvm and the other separation that occurs
> in qubes.

You can essentially use a standard Xen for all this.

joanna.

[Radoslaw Szkodzinski]

Qubes VM manager is quite nice for automation of creating multiple VMs...
You can use it without the rest of Qubes OS though.
You'd need to create a new minimal template for one service, as the
default one contains a lot of KDE.

Radosław

[Joanna Rutkowska]

On 01/07/11 05:35, Radoslaw Szkodzinski wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 10:56 AM, Joanna Rutkowska
> <joa...@invisiblethingslab.com> wrote:
>> On 01/06/11 05:02, moncojhr wrote:
>>> Basically qubes without any gui, then you could have multiple vm's for
>>> the seperate services, for instance apache in one, jabber in another.
>>> You'd also benefit from the netvm and the other separation that occurs
>>> in qubes.
>>
>> You can essentially use a standard Xen for all this.
>>
>> joanna
>
> Qubes VM manager is quite nice for automation of creating multiple VMs...

There are similar tools for Xen as well...

> You can use it without the rest of Qubes OS though.

No you can't, as the Qubes Manger expects to talk to the Qubes
management scripts.

joannna.