On Mon, Jun 13, 2016 at 12:49:46PM +0000, 7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: > > > On 06/13/2016 01:15 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > On Monday, June 13, 2016 at 11:10:12 AM UTC+12, Unman wrote: > >> On Sun, Jun 12, 2016 at 03:43:06PM -0700, [email protected] wrote: > >>> Hi guys, I would like to install Qubes OS (\system)in the Smallest Foot > >>> possible while running VMapps and any other functions from a separate > >>> \VMS partition. > >>> > >>> Any advise on how this may work and what I might need to adjust. Also > >>> what is Qubes OS foot print? Recommendations stay you need at least 32Gb > >>> to complete the installation. How much of that is required for \system > >>> (root). > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> > >>> J > >>> > >> Jon > >> > >> A quick look suggests that the footprint is relatively small - perhaps > >> 3.5 G? > >> And that could be trimmed down further: cut out unneeded locale files, > >> icons, wallpapers, man and doc, for a quick cut. > >> > >> if you do this post an update - it would be an interesting exercise. > >> > >> unman > > Hi Unman, thanks for your reply. > > I guess compared to win7 that is a small footprint. But by my standards it > > is still quite a large footprint especially for a Hypervisor type1. But I > > guess you need all those drivers on installation. If I stripped out all the > > unused files and drives and apps for my particular laptop. I may reduce the > > OS size down to maybe 100mb :) lol. > > (Note...I'm a newbie, so this may be off...) > > ISTM you're conflating various Qubes components - the hypervisor is > already extremely small. > > Dom0 is not very big - I'd guess that the various Dom0's go from medium > (KDE) to small - using different GUIs. > > A real savings could probably be effected by building trimmed-down > templates using only the drivers necessary for your laptop built into > the kernel (not using lots of LKMs), and "minimal" application software. > I'd guess that ArchLinux facilitates building custom kernels. If you're > building custom kernels, you might add GRSEC as well. > > There are also threads here on microkernels. Perhaps you could build a > microkernel Template - again custom built for your hardware. > > > > > > > I'd guess this is the goal of occur >
OP was concerned with dom0+xen - specifically says that VMs will be running from a separate partition. The figure I quoted is for a normal install of 3.1 - it would be easy to trim this down. unman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20160615215047.GA20001%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
