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As a Qubes user, no, not at all. It's fairly easy to starve other VMs of resources. Qubes is more vulnerable here than other systems, due to it's dynamic alloca
by throwawayish 10y ago
As a Qubes user, no, not at all. It's fairly easy to starve other VMs of resources. Qubes is more vulnerable here than other systems, due to it's dynamic allocation of memory. A VM that has a no-matter-what fixed limit of say 2 GB RAM would have a harder time to cause trouble there, but the dynamic management done by Qubes is a major selling point, otherwise it wouldn't be really practical to use on mobile hardware (which is all the rage). I believe one can disable it on a per-VM basis though, so there's that.
- dandelion_lover 10y agoAs a Qubes OS user, yes, you can disable the dynamic memory allocation for chosen VMs. So I do not see the problem. Upd: right click in Qubes Manager, VM settings, Advanced, Include in memory balancing, remove the tick. And you can even choose how many CPU cores a VM can use.