GSoC 2026 - Interested in Qubes as a Vagrant provider Project

[Ayush Ahire]

Heyy Qubes

My name is Ayush Ahire, and I am from Dr. D. Y. Patil College in Pune, India. Firstly I would like to call you Qubees, haha Qubes devs. I recently came across the GSoC project idea “Qubes as a Vagrant provider,” and it somehow caught me.

I have previously used Vagrant for a cybersecurity course, and the idea of integrating it with Qubes OS seems both technically challenging and very useful. I find the concept of much interesting.

This project excites me because it would allow me to deepen my understanding of both Vagrant and Qubes OS while contributing to a tool that can improve usability for many developers working with secure environments.

Tho I would be submitting the proposal on GSoC portal, just introducing myself.

Thankyou Qubees for your time
Ayush Ahire

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Tue, Mar 10, 2026 at 02:48:07AM -0700, Ayush Ahire wrote:
> Heyy Qubes

Hello,

> My name is Ayush Ahire, and I am from Dr. D. Y. Patil College in Pune,
> India. Firstly I would like to call you Qubees, haha Qubes devs. I recently
> came across the GSoC project idea “Qubes as a Vagrant provider,” and it
> somehow caught me.
>
> I have previously used Vagrant for a cybersecurity course, and the idea of
> integrating it with Qubes OS seems both technically challenging and very
> useful. I find the concept of much interesting.
>
> This project excites me because it would allow me to deepen my
> understanding of both Vagrant and Qubes OS while contributing to a tool
> that can improve usability for many developers working with secure
> environments.

Yes, this would indeed be very useful!

> Tho I would be submitting the proposal on GSoC portal, just introducing
> myself.

Nice to meet you.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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[Ayush Ahire]

I'm using qubes os and so far I've liked the concepts behind all those, like clipboard blocking between different qubes and all those stuff is just crazy. Do you guys follow any particular doc to know more about the Admin API?

Regards
Ayush

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

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On Mon, Mar 23, 2026 at 11:08:47AM -0700, Ayush Ahire wrote:
> I'm using qubes os and so far I've liked the concepts behind all those,
> like clipboard blocking between different qubes and all those stuff is just
> crazy. Do you guys follow any particular doc to know more about the Admin
> API?

The main doc is here: https://doc.qubes-os.org/en/latest/developer/services/admin-api.html
See also the article linked at the top - it gives some more high level
overview.

There are also a bunch of policy examples what actions are needed for
specific use cases:
- - management vm with ansible: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-ansible/?tab=readme-ov-file#management-vm
- - GUI domain (user interface with control over most of the system): https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-mgmt-salt-dom0-virtual-machines/blob/main/qvm/template-gui.jinja
- - permissions needed for installing templates: https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-core-admin/blob/main/qubes/tests/integ/dom0_update.py#L724-L750

The last one would be IMO especially relevant here, because it's similar
set of actions needed in Vagrant.

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
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