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QubesOS uses a Linux system with 300MB of RAM for the firewall? I just installed OpenWRT 15.05 Chaos Calmer on my router, with 32MB of RAM and 4MB of flash, and
by Decade 11y ago
QubesOS uses a Linux system with 300MB of RAM for the firewall? I just installed OpenWRT 15.05 Chaos Calmer on my router, with 32MB of RAM and 4MB of flash, and almost 1MB to spare. There are some differences between QubesOS and OpenWRT, but that still seems to be excessive by an order of magnitude.
- kklimonda 11y agoI don't think Firewall VM is trimmed in any way, compared to their standard VMs, so it's running a lot of "cruft" [1] - Xorg, systemd and friends, extra Qubes plumbing. It all adds up to ~200MB, and then the rest is used by buffers/cache. [1] at least on 3.1-RCx I have running, where I had to create Firewall VM manually, as installer has failed to deploy those "service VMs".
- voltagex_ 11y agoCouldn't you run an x86 OpenWRT under Qubes?