Qubes, boot from SD card?

[gorked]

I see some mention of booting from SD on some board somewhere.   

My question being, If I purchased an intel based Chromebook with 4 GB RAM, and a 16 GB SSD.  Could I boot QUBES or other Linux on it.  

[dhorf-hfre...@hashmail.org]

On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 07:39:12AM -0800, gorked wrote:
> My question being, If I purchased an intel based Chromebook with 4 GB RAM,
> and a 16 GB SSD. Could I boot QUBES or other Linux on it.

4GB ram is not enough to use qubes.
8GB ram _might_ work if you were a really experienced qubes ninja
or just want to try it out for a weekend.

using qubes on a chromebook with 16GB ram works ok,
including boot from internal mmc or micro-sd.

the storage performance is horrible though.
"my default_qrexec_timeout is 300" level horrible.
(this means the default-default of 1min timeout for vm startup was
hit so frequently that i changed it to 5min...)

and i would still recommend doing mild ram-usage ninjaing with 16GB,
like using mirage for firewall and ssh-agent, and clamping down
maxmem of a lot of vms.

[Chris Laprise]

There are some Chromebooks listed in the HCL, but there is no guarantee
Qubes will work on just any Chromebook.

Also, 4GB should be OK for running a single Appvm. To give apps more
room to operate comfortably I would limit all the sys-* VMs to 300MB
RAM, and limit dom0 to 1GB RAM (this is what I do on my 8GB systems and
it lets me run 4-5 Appvms comfortably).

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