How I learned to love Liteqube (and why you should, too, even if you have enough RAM)

Almost ported to ansible. Would not say it is a “clean” port because qubes ansible still lacks native tooling so there is still some shell :confused:

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Great ! don’t worry shell is still better than this crap salt as hell.
tell me when I can test to help you

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So can you share the code ? Then I can start implementing it

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Here is a good ansible setup for some inspiration. It is not mine.

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oh thanks. analyzing it right now.
NEWS: This repo looks promising. There is not many features, but the LLM stack itself is nice.

Found another one as well, contains split-ssh/split-gpg/vault and many more: GitHub - fepitre/qubes-ansible-collections · GitHub

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Well, once I finish with QWT i am back on Liteqube, I have a lot of ideas how to minimize dom0 influence you guys hate so much.

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Hi @arkenoi.
So you’re the developer of liteqube?

So then, I wonder if you ever plan to incorporate it together with @linuxuser1’s Live mode script and also @abdullah’s hardening script which I’ve been testing whenever I set aside the time.

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Possibly. Not everything belongs, but some parts may.

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@arkenoi I searched through your liteqube repo and I did not see it set expert-mode 1 on the created qubes. That could be a good idea to make it way easier to launch disposable debug consoles for headless qubes: qvm-features – manage domain’s features — Qubes Admin client mm_e2665176-0-ge266517 documentation

Thanks to @parulin for making me aware of this setting existing.

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was not aware of this either! however, the whole way how we split and template x11 looks very imperfect for me, so I was going to rework this part after i finish the qwt-ng speedrun :slight_smile:

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hi does this still work in 2026? i notice the creator said “Please note I currently do not have time to maintain Liteqube, it is not updated to support Qubes 4.2” does it still work anyway?

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you are looking at wrong repo. yes it does.

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thank goodness where is the right one?

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:index_pointing_up: there’s a good link.

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A post was merged into an existing topic: Updates failing?

seems really nice bc i have only 16gb of ram but does it add more attack surface since u need to put it in dom0?

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Not really. There are just a few very stripped down services running in dom0 like notifications – and some of them could be substituted with native 4.3 services already shipped. The rest is one-time scripts, resizing volumes, updating templates, configuring rpc.

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Ah, I guess it’s time for me to give Liteqube another try… on the spare.
@arkenoi : any caveats? or a fresh 4.3.1 install will just work with the scripts?

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Most likely, did not touch it for a while so things could drift a bit. Let me know if you bump into any problem. I am running it on up to date 4.3 now, but the installation happened quite a long time ago.

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whats the difference between liteqube and minimal templates?

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