Fedora Minimal ProxyVPN template?

[el...@tutanota.com]

VPN Services usually offer a number of different sites/cities to connect to. I am trying to set up a minimalist bare-bones Fedora23 template that I can base all of my ProxyVM's off of (via cloning), such that I only have to change the .ovpn file within each Proxy in the /rw/config/openvpn folder (and name the ProxyVM accordingly).
This would allow me to choose to have a quick way to easily have a distinct proxyvm for each appvm that I can change at will w/o taking up excess memory.

Does anyone have this set-up (or a better idea)? If you do, care to share what packages you have pared it down to?

Inspired by Olivier Médoc's post below..
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/qubes-users/LkGNj-mCVHI/e0N0FeLFCQAJ

[Connor Page]

The reality of life is that you can't clone netvms and proxyvms in qubes-manager. However, if you create a separate template with all customisation saved in /rw and /etc then you will be able to create many copies as /rw will be inherited.

[el...@tutanota.com]

Thx. I wasn't really sure about the inheritance. Qubes keeps on blowing my mind.
It is actually extremely forgiving. Maybe there are a few more hoops to jump through, but as long as you make copies of your templates, you can't really mess up.
Anyway, good to know. I am experimenting with pruning down the fedora23 template and starting one from scratch--not sure which will yield positive results for a minimal fedora openvpn template that I can lock on to. Will update when I figure something out if anyone else has similar interests.

[Zrubi]

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On 08/05/2016 04:39 PM, el...@tutanota.com wrote:
> VPN Services usually offer a number of different sites/cities to
> connect to. I am trying to set up a minimalist bare-bones Fedora23
> template that I can base all of my ProxyVM's off of (via cloning),
> such that I only have to change the .ovpn file within each Proxy in
> the /rw/config/openvpn folder (and name the ProxyVM accordingly).
> This would allow me to choose to have a quick way to easily have a
> distinct proxyvm for each appvm that I can change at will w/o
> taking up excess memory.
>
> Does anyone have this set-up (or a better idea)? If you do, care
> to share what packages you have pared it down to?

This is not what you are looking for?
https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/templates/fedora-minimal/


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Zrubi
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[el...@tutanota.com]

Yeah, found that.
I have it working from the minimal template, but am missing the network up/down dialog..

When the qubes-vpn-handler.sh calls
su - -c 'notify-send "$(hostname): LINK IS UP." --icon=network-idle' user
it doesn't seem to work..

I left the template as empty as possible, downloading only
sudo
rsyslog
NetworkManager-openvpn
openvpn

When I try to call the
su - -c.... ork-idle' user
line in from terminal, it asks me for a password.
I am definitely behind the vpn though, just without any dialog boxes. Is it because I am missing gnome? Any way to send a dialog out without having any gui? I am looking to save on RAM and HDD space, so don't want to install anything I do not have to..

[Connor Page]

you can install dunst for minimalist notifications.

[el...@tutanota.com]

On Tuesday, August 9, 2016 at 6:18:27 PM UTC, Connor Page wrote:
> you can install dunst for minimalist notifications.

Thanks. I'll look into it.