Probably so, but the isolation between VMs wouldn't be as good. Would still be useful from a advanced software management perspective but not quite as secure.
It's picky about hardware because it uses hardware features to enforce isolation from what I've read.
Yeah as someone who is used to dealing with multiple machines on a daily basis already it fits nicely into my thinking as well.
Certainly not for noobs, but I think it's a concept the general public could eventually grasp given enough time.
Hardware support is a bitch, but I like it enough that I may look into getting some certified hardware once there is a machine certified for the upcoming 4.0 release.
https://puri.sm/ sells a 13" laptop certified to work perfectly with 3.x but it's not enough of an improvement over my T510 right now to shell out that kind of money for it.
Only thing I really want more of for this is RAM. 8GB is just barely enough to comfortably run the stuff I want to this way.
No, but I really like the concept. Going to install it when I buy a new hard drive and if it pans out then I'll run with it. Its just what I'm looking for.
Notwithstanding the security benefits, having everything run in a VM is pretty sweet for managing software installs if you're a heavy software geek.
Biggest downside other than user friendliness (which actually isn't as bad as you would expect) is that running everything in a VM gets a bit memory hungry.
That pretty much describes my old dual quad core xeon box. The graphics cards are dated, you can't do anything graphically intensive securely on this anyway.
I picked up an 8 gig ram kit (most that will fit in a T510) and that seems to be enough for the basic stuff I'm doing on it now.
I may see how well it works on my old xeon tower though for shits and giggles since it isn't doing anything else right now.
Atarian ago
I tried it, but it shat itself and died on my hardware.
I think we could get something approaching the level of qubes just by using jails on FreeBSD or Docker on Linux with half the overhead.
go1dfish ago
Probably so, but the isolation between VMs wouldn't be as good. Would still be useful from a advanced software management perspective but not quite as secure.
It's picky about hardware because it uses hardware features to enforce isolation from what I've read.
go1dfish ago
Yeah as someone who is used to dealing with multiple machines on a daily basis already it fits nicely into my thinking as well.
Certainly not for noobs, but I think it's a concept the general public could eventually grasp given enough time.
Hardware support is a bitch, but I like it enough that I may look into getting some certified hardware once there is a machine certified for the upcoming 4.0 release.
https://puri.sm/ sells a 13" laptop certified to work perfectly with 3.x but it's not enough of an improvement over my T510 right now to shell out that kind of money for it.
Only thing I really want more of for this is RAM. 8GB is just barely enough to comfortably run the stuff I want to this way.
Disappointed ago
No, but I really like the concept. Going to install it when I buy a new hard drive and if it pans out then I'll run with it. Its just what I'm looking for.
go1dfish ago
You can install it to a USB stick and it's quite common to do this to test out laptop hardware in stores apparently.
Big performance impact that way though. The biggest downside of Qubes that I've read seems to be it is quite picky about hardware.
go1dfish ago
Notwithstanding the security benefits, having everything run in a VM is pretty sweet for managing software installs if you're a heavy software geek.
Biggest downside other than user friendliness (which actually isn't as bad as you would expect) is that running everything in a VM gets a bit memory hungry.
Disappointed ago
I'm thinking if you had a proper 8 core cpu or more, 32 gigs of ram and a high end card for passthrough this could be something special.
go1dfish ago
That pretty much describes my old dual quad core xeon box. The graphics cards are dated, you can't do anything graphically intensive securely on this anyway.
I picked up an 8 gig ram kit (most that will fit in a T510) and that seems to be enough for the basic stuff I'm doing on it now.
I may see how well it works on my old xeon tower though for shits and giggles since it isn't doing anything else right now.